Here are two more league matches with this RDW list.

Maindeck:

4 Keldon Megaliths
18 Mountain

4 Tattermunge Maniac
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Blood Knight
4 Adder-Staff Boggart
4 Ashenmoor Gouger

2 Shard Volley
4 Incinerate
4 Lash Out
4 Flame Javelin

Sideboard:

1 Mountain
4 Countryside Crusher
4 Magus of the Moon
3 Greater Gargadon
3 Tormod's Crypt

Match 1 vs B/R Aggro Homebrew

My rating: 1713
My opponent: McRishel42
His rating: 1628

Game 1

In red aggro mirror matches, it's all about avoiding the dreaded mana flood. In this game, he drew 10 spells and 5 lands while I drew 7 spells and 8 lands.

He had a good start with some early creatures and burn to kill my blockers. I had early removal to kill his guys, but then I hit the land glut. It didn't help that two of my spells were Keldon Marauders. He let the first one die before resuming his attacks.

I think I made a mistake by not attacking with the first Marauders. He was ahead of me in life so I thought I should keep him as a blocker. However, racing him would've given me a chance to win if I got lucky on my next draws. At that time, he only had Mogg Fanatic and Sootstoke Kindler on the board.

Also, I should've killed his Mogg Fanatic before playing Ashenmoor Gouger. He was able to Incinerate and sac Mogg to kill my Gouger.

Anyways, I ran out of creatures and he finally killed me with 2 Shard Volleys, Murderous Redcap, and Ashenmoor Liege.

Game 2

I took out 4 Maniacs and 4 Marauders for 1 Mountain, 4 Crushers, and 3 Greater Gargadon.

He got turn 2 Bitterblossom while I had Mogg Fanatic, Greater Gargadon, and a 2/1 Adder-Staff Boggart. Then, he played Mogg Fanatic. It traded with my Fanatic and killed Adder-Staff. His Bitterblossom started making tokens and he threw burn spells to my face.

However, I got lucky by winning two straight clashes with Lash Out to kill his Faerie blockers. With those Lash Outs, a couple attacks from Fanatic, and Bitterblossom, he was down to 9 life. I killed his last Faerie blocker during my upkeep with Keldon Megaliths. Then, I sacked all my lands to Greater Gargadon to play him and attack for the last 9 damage.

Game 3

I mulliganed 2 one-land hands and ended up with this:

Mountain
Mountain
Mountain
Lash Out
Ashermoor Gouger

He mulliganed one time but he had a turn 2 Bitterblossom. Meanwhile, he had all the answers for my creatures:

Incinerate for Crusher
Javelin for Gouger
Redcap for Adder-Staff
double block with Redcap and Faerie token for my 2nd Crusher

After that, he just chumped the rest of my creatures with Redcaps and Faerie tokens and won through multiple Faerie air assaults. It didn't help that I didn't draw another burn spell until I was at 1 life.

Postmatch Thoughts

Usually RDW is good against Bitterblossom. But BR Bitterblossom Aggro Burn is not a good matchup. It's able to race RDW because it has burn too and its Faerie tokens make great chump blockers for Mogg Fanatic, Maniac, and Marauders. Also, Murderous Redcap is a potential 2-for-1 or even 3-for-1, because RDW has so many small creatures and Redcap survives the first burn spell.

However, BR Bitterblossom Aggro is a rogue deck, so I won't be seeing it often.

New rating: 1708 (-5)

Match 2 vs GB Elves

My rating: 1708
My opponent: tonis
His rating: 1616

Game 1

I started off with Keldon Marauders. I Incinerated his Wren's Run Vanquisher. He played Imperious Perfect but I killed it with a topdecked Lash Out.

He reinforced with Masked Admirers, Garruk Wildspeaker, and Thornweald Archer while I had Gouger. He attacked with Admirers. I topdecked an Incinerate and burned Thornweald Archer. This allowed me to kill Garruk with Gouger. I played my last card, another Gouger. Also, my Keldon Megaliths was now active.

He played another Garruk and killed one of my Gougers with Eyeblight's Ending. I attacked his Garruk with my other Gouger. He chump blocked with Admirers. I summoned Blood Knight. He played Elvish Champion and returned Admirers to his hand. Then, he made a 3/3 Beast.

I attacked Garruk with Gouger and Blood Knight. He blocked with both of his creatures. His creatures died and mine stayed alive because of my active Megaliths.

He played Masked Admirers and another Elvish Champion. I attacked Garruk again. He blocked Gouger with Admirers and they traded. I got 2 damage in against Garruk. I played my topdeck, another Gouger, and finished off Garruk with Megaliths.

He played another Champion and returned Admirers. He attacked with his 3/3 Champion. Life totals were 11 for me and 8 for him. I attacked with my team and he chumped with his freshly played Champion. He attacked with Champion. I drew Keldon Marauders, played it, and attacked with my team. He blocked Gouger with Admirers and they traded. He drew his card and scooped.

Game 2

I sided in 4 Crushers, 4 Greater Gargadons, and 1 Mountain for 4 Adder-Staff and 4 Maniacs.

He went turn 1 Boreal Druid and turn 2 Champion, but I had Lash Out for the Champion. Then, he had turn 3 Wren's Run Packmaster, a 5/5 creature that championed Boreal Druid.

I played Crusher and took a hit from Packmaster. He played the rest of his hand: 2 Thornweald Archers. I played Blood Knight with Incinerate mana open. However, he topdecked Champion, which made his Packmaster 6/6. I took 6 more from the Packmaster leaving me a 9 life.

I Incinerated his Champion and played Keldon Marauders with Flame Javelin mana open. He started making wolves as we had a short standstill with neither of us attacking. I reinforced with Greater Gargadon and another Marauders. I finally drew another burn spell and used it along with Javelin to Packmaster.

By then, my Crusher was pretty big. He drew land. I sacced all my lands to Gargadon to bring him into play. I killed him with Gargadon and an 11/11 Crusher.

Postmatch Thoughts

I'm not really sure about this matchup because my opponent seemed to make a couple misplays. For example, he did not do a good job of protecting Garruk. Also, he had two 3/3 Champions. He attacked with one Champion. There other one was just played. My board was Blood Knight and Gouger. Then, he chump blocked the Gouger with the other Champion. The better play would've been to not attack and instead double block my Gouger.

I'll have to test the matchup myself or find a more skilled player to playtest with.

New rating: 1711 (+3)

Tags: Mono Red Burn Standard T2 RDW Red Deck Wins

Related to: Magic: the Gathering

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