Hasted Flyers for the Win!

Some true werewolf haste action with big fliers!

Introduction

This is a Rakdos deck utilizing Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher to provide haste to Archfiend of the Dross and Bonehoard Dracosaur.

Format

• The deck is for the Standard format with The Lost Caverns of Ixalan being the last legal set.
• The deck is probably Tier 1.5 or Tier 2 caliber.
• The deck can be played in both Bo1 and Bo3. The current deck listing is pre-sideboarded towards Bo1 meta. If you play it in Bo3, you need to pre-sideboard it towards Bo3 meta.
• The deck is pretty fast, and thus it's suitable for quickly grinding a large number of wins in the MTG Arena ladder.

Source

This is my own brew.

New Cards

These are the new cards from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan that I am trying out:

Strategy

Main Deck Synergies

Reckless Stormseeker with Big Fliers

Reckless Stormseeker can give haste — and also trample if it is night — to big fliers in the deck, which are Archfiend of the Dross and Bonehoard Dracosaur. Giving haste to other creatures also does not hurt.

Getting Rid of Archfiend of the Dross

There are several ways of how to get rid of Archfiend of the Dross, if it is running out of counters:

• Go for the Throat
• Liliana of the Veil
• Molten Collapse

Mana Base Statistics

• Total of 26 lands
• 19 lands produce black mana
• 17 lands produce red mana
• 4 lands produce colorless mana (and possibly colored mana)

Starting Hand Probabilities

Bo3 (No Hand Smoothing)

• At least two lands: 89.55 %
• 2–5 lands: 87.36 %
• At least 1 black mana: 94.18 %
• At least 2 black mana: 72.06 %
• At least 1 red mana: 91.66 %

Bo1 (Hand Smoothing)

Ranked Queue (Best of 2 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the ranked queue takes the best of 2 different starting hands (of 2 different deck shuffles).

• 2–5 lands: 98.40 % (approximately)

Play Queue (Best of 3 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the play queue takes the best of 3 different starting hands (of 3 different deck shuffles).

• 2–5 lands: 99.80 % (approximately)

Land Probabilities

Probabilities are for on the play / on the draw.

Land Count

With Any Starting Hand

• At least 3 lands by turn 3: 84.63 % / 90.19 %
• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 71.64 % / 80.17 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 56.71 % / 67.24 %

With 2-Land Starting Hand

• At least 3 lands by turn 3: 70.54 % / 84.40 %
• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 42.81 % / 61.94 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 23.67 % / 40.86 %

With 3-Land Starting Hand

• At least 4 lands by turn 4: 82.67 % / 90.64 %
• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 58.75 % / 73.07 %

With 4-Land Starting Hand

• At least 5 lands by turn 5: 89.26 % / 94.08 %

Color Count

These probabilities are counted as Cavern of Souls providing colorless mana.

With Any Starting Hand

• At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 85.35 % / 89.68 %
• At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 89.68 % / 92.86 %
• At least 2 red mana by turn 3: 79.51 % / 84.74 %
• At least 2 red mana by turn 4: 84.74 % / 88.81 %
• At least 2 red mana by turn 5: 88.81 % / 91.92 %

With 1-Red-Mana Starting Hand

• At least 2 red mana by turn 3: 51.67 % / 66.83 %
• At least 2 red mana by turn 4: 66.83 % / 77.45 %
• At least 2 red mana by turn 5: 77.45 % / 84.81 %

With 1-Black-Mana Starting Hand

• At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 56.82 % / 72.06 %
• At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 72.06 % / 82.12 %