The Horde smiles at death - Competitive (budget)

Standard* phDaemon

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Mid-Week Casual Update (~75% win rate) —July 1, 2015

So, I've been playing this deck a lot on untap.in to test it against as many deck-lists as possible, finding out it's weaknesses and strengths, winners and losers.

Also made a few modifications (essentially reversions) to the deck:

• Removed 2x Athreos, God of Passage
• SB: Removed 1x Hero's Downfall
• MB: Added 1x Valorous Stance
• SB: Added 2x Valorous Stance

Makes me sad, cause when/if Athreos gains affinity, the game gets crazy. But he was about the only non-threat/non-removal card in the entire deck.

Here is the quick stats:

• Mono Green Ramp (2-0)
• Temur Dragons - midrange (2-0)
• Jeskai Combo Tokens (2-0)
• Esper Midrange (0-2) [*1]
• Grixis Heroic (2-0)
• B/W Warriors (2-0)
• Mardu Dragons (1-2) [*2]
• Jund Dragons (2-0)
• Temur Aggro (2-0)
• 5C Dragons (0-2) [*3]
• Mono-Red Goblins [origins] (2-1)
• G/B Company Devotion (2-1) - Raptor / Den Engine with Pharika & Collected Company
• Abzan Midrange (1-2) [*4]
• Sultai Midrange (2-0)
• Golgari Whip (2-0)
• Mono Black Aggro (1-2) [*5]
• B/W Warriors (2-0)
• Green Midrange (2-0)
• G/R Devotion (2-0) - Raptor / Den / Elemental (This makes me happy lol)
• Jeskai Wins (2-0)
• Jund Value Delve (0-2) / (R: 2-0) - After rematch (First game I didn't draw any threats, but I thought I could beat it, and I did! :])
• Mono-Black Warriors (2-0)
• Abzan Midrange (2-0) - After Valorous Stance change. Was MB: Spear of Heliod, SB: Hero's Downfall, Crackling Doom.

General Note: Another similarity in the losses is that I didn't have one drops or two drops starting out (against control type decks...lol) Another Note: Against other aggro decks (x/2 creatures) Always use Kolaghan's Command as the removal....its fun.

75% win rate, only losing with extremely bad hands (mana short/no creatures till turn 3) or when huge creatures come out and I have no answers for them.

Clearly, this deck's weakness is huge monsters that give opponents a lot of value, with 12+ removal spells in the deck though, concentrating on those creatures if you know the deck you're going up against makes it easier to deal with. Definitely considering something like Crux of Fate in the sideboard though (Kill all dragon creatures).

Still working on getting at least an 80%+ win rate since 70 is meh.

Suggestions will be considered.

Thank you!