In Your Face! The Direct Damage Approach

Standard BR (Rakdos) Budget Competitive Discard

Struyk

Creature (19)

• 4x Asylum Visitor
• 3x Bloodhall Priest
• 4x Falkenrath Gorger
• 4x Furyblade Vampire
• 1x Hazoret the Fervent
• 3x Olivia, Mobilized for War

Land (20)

• 4x Canyon Slough
• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 7x Mountain
• 5x Swamp

Instant (8)

• 4x Fiery Temper
• 4x Lightning Axe

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Alms of the Vein
• 3x Lay Bare the Heart
• 4x Tormenting Voice

Artifact (2)

• 2x Key to the City

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 4x Shock

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Cut / Ribbons

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Maybeboard

Creature (33)

• 4x Bloodrage Brawler
• 4x Bomat Courier
• 3x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 4x Falkenrath Gorger
• 4x Furyblade Vampire
• 4x Heir of Falkenrath  ^Flip
• 4x Lupine Prototype
• 4x Miasmic Mummy
• 2x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip

Sorcery (17)

• 4x Alchemist's Greeting
• 2x Avacyn's Judgment
• 4x Collective Brutality
• 3x Liliana's Indignation
• 4x Never / Return

Instant (8)

• 4x Fatal Push
• 4x Grasp of Darkness

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Early Game: Dread Wanderer, Lay Bare the Heart, Asylum Visitor and Tormenting Voice
Midgame: Fiery Temper , Alms of the Vein and Gonti's Machinations
Endgame: Bloodhall Priest, Olivia, Mobilized for War and Hazoret the Fervent

Empty your hand as soon as possible for Hazoret the Fervent and Asylum Visitor, discard any 4 cost card if you have to.

Sideboard Shock vs rush decks / decks with lots of 2 hp or less units
Sideboard Supernatural Stamina against heavy control decks ( Destroy and Damage control spells only! )

Shadow of the Grave and Faith of the Devoted DO NOT WORK with Madness.

Should I take Cut / Ribbons over Lightning Axe?

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 4 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.27