Yep you read this right, not Blue Red Wizards, but Black/Red Wizards. There are a lot of good wizard cards, and seeing the new card Dreadhorde Aranist Printed, I finally decided to make a wizards deck in black and red. I feel that this new card can be treated as a lot of different cards. I believe that in the right sheel, this card can be treated as a dark canfidant, basically, if your opponent lets this guy stick for a turn, you can generate so much value every turn that you just win. with this card, you can cast Thoughseize,
Inquisition of Kozilek
,
Fatal Push
,
Lightning Bolt
,
Surgical Extraction
, and other cards TWICE. On top of that building your deck around mostly one cost spells means
Dark Confidant
is all that much better.
Like the blue and red version of the deck, there is not very much wizard synergy, it just allows for the card
Wizard's Lightning
as
Lightning Bolt
s 5-8, its played because a lot of good cards are incidentally wizards allowing for the card to be indifferent from its parent card. This deck is rather Jund-esq deck so it plays a good number of one for one cards and atttempts to stick a value generating card, but the deck also tries to play like wizards, where it can pivot to a burn deck and steel games.
Additional odd picks: I have a
Funeral Charm
in this deck. This is because it can function as another discard spell or removal spell incidentally, but also, you can use it to pump your Dreadhorde Aranist and cast more powerful expensive spells on the attack like
Kolaghan's Command
or
Bedevil
, This also allows you to recast
Wizard's Lightning
.
Claim / Fame
allows us to recur our 8 value generating cards as well as most other creatures, this can be recast with Dreadhorde Aranist, or it can be used to pump creatures and give haste. Doing this also has the same effect as
Funeral Charm
of course.
Strengths: This deck is very consistent. you can expect to have turn one interaction or tap land into a payoff card between turns 1 and 2. This deck also has a wide range of interaction and can function in tough match ups through surgical and discard spells.
Current problems with the deck: I am unsure of if this deck has the ability to pivot as well as the other wizards deck. Most of the creature cards in the UR Wizards Deck is a 3/x creature/ has some sort of evasion and I am unsure that having some extra bolts makes the pivot possible. Additionally, the deck seems to be worse than Jund or rock in a mid-range sense, the lack of payoffs and very significant pressure is worrying, though I feel that this is a problem that can be solved through testing and better deck building.
