This is a more recent build of mine, and has only had limited real-world experience, but man, was it fun taking this baby for a walk.
The obvious choice for a Child of Alara deck, in my view, is just the meanest group slug imaginable. Repeatable board wipes is just too good to pass up, but since I try to do things differently when I can, I decided to make this deck a frienemy.
I chose as many cards as I could that affected all players, whether for good or for bad. I am open to targeted spells to maybe build up a player who needs a land-drop or a creature really bad, or whatever. Mostly, trying to be the good guy 3/5ths of the time...
I tried to keep all the W/U/G cards as ones that benefit all players. Obviously, some white removal was necessary, but I liked Magus of the Vineyard, New Frontiers, Windfall, etc. I tried to have friendly cards be a strong feature to the deck.
But the B/R component is as nasty as you like. Damage, kill, destroy all the things. The artifacts help in this area as well.
I'd really like suggestions for more politics staples, targeted benefits (Fertilid comes to mind) and cards that affect all players in a way that is interesting.

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