I made this deck with a casual theme in mind, but I would like to think it would be fairly powerful against some competitive decks.
The main goal of the deck is very simply to kill the opponent with their own creatures. For this we have 12 (yes, i did say 12) threaten effects mainboarded. Nothing is more fun or disrespectful than getting slapped in the face by your own creature. We run playsets of Wrangle, Hijack, and of course
Kari Zev's Expertise
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But just borrowing someone's card won't help you if they can hit you back the next turn. To fix this we have a number of sacrifice outlets in the deck to make sure that the tools we borrowed are not going to be returned to our opponent the same way we got them. Hidden Stockpile is the cheapest and one of the better outlets as not only can we sacrifice their creature for 1, but we also get to scry and we get a new creature for their turn. Yahenni, Undying Partisan and
Defiant Salvager
both have free sacrifice triggers with upside depending on the situation. And of course our best sac outlet in this deck is Hazoret's Favor. This card gives whatever creature we steal a +2/+0 boost for the price of sacrificing it at the end of turn. Not very helpful for your creatures, but hella sweet when you get to hit harder than your opponent can and then break their own creature. It's like that lawn mower you borrowed from your neighbor, only you used it to destroy their topiary garden,then gave it back after ripping out the gas tank. The analogy makes very little sense, but suffice to say it is quite the backhand when it works.
Lastly we need a way to deal with big boards of tokens if we run into them. Our answer is one of the better board wipes in standard right now, and a very efficient one at that. Sweltering Suns deals 3 damage to each creature on the battlefield, enough to kill every token you are likely to face in standard. It is also able to kill just about every card in an aggro deck. If it does survive sweltering suns, then congrats, you just got your next creature to steal!
Edit: I forgot to talk about Fling and Invigorated Rampage. Fling lets you hit them twice as hard with their own creatures, and Invigorated Rampage gives a substantial boost to attack power. Just nice surprises.
Sideboard is all creatures for the event that we run up against a control deck, as we have nothing in the mainboard for keeping the pressure on against a blue deck.
But tell me what you think, make suggestions. The deck is rather cheap other than the land base, and that is only expensive because I wanted the best possible lands I could run. You can substitute whatever lands you want for your budget, and still have fun with this deck. Advice is appreciated.
