So Tron had a low showing at the Pro Tour metagame, so I've dropped 1 Crumble to Dust to include both Painful Truths and Darkblast in my sideboard. Painful Truths is surprisingly good against Eldrazi, which had an unfortunately large PT metagame percentage, and a must-have against some of the other big decks such as Scapeshift and Control of any kind.

I will likely adjust a little more based on the final results, but this might be the configuration of choice for now.

Maybe replace Rakdos Charm with some more efficient artifact hate. Hurkyl's Recall, Vandalblast, Ancient Grudge with a Breeding Pool mainboard all come to mind

@uskie Rakdos Charm also fills in the role of graveyard hate and possibly can also hate on token decks or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker decks. It's here for it's versatility rather than it's artifact hate strength.

Lemmingllama is right. At the end of the day I don't really need that efficient of artifact hate, but rather I just need a critical mass and versatility. The curve in this deck is so low to the ground anyway that efficiency of cards like Rakdos Charm is just not an issue.

So with Eldrazi being popular, a lot of people are talking about Death and Taxes or Hatebears becoming popular. Both of these are super bad matchups for me because this deck kinda folds to that kind of hate. Mostly I find I just don't know how to approach the matchup, so any advice on what I should be trying to do would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It's fundamentally a creature matchup. Just kill their things.

Oh. That's it? Hatebears / D&T are both matchups where efficiency is super important, so Lightning Bolt should shine, but Terminate seems super inefficient against them and Inquisition of Kozilek doesn't build tempo, and tempo seems kind of important in that matchup too. Engineered Explosives and Pyroclasm are likely pretty good. Counterspells feel wrong in that matchup, but PLEASE tell me if I'm completely incorrect about that. Remand looks like it should be sided out. Is Darkblast good enough? I doubt it.

Those are my thoughts at the moment, with my main questions being: is Terminate too inefficient against them? Are counterspells as bad as they sound against them? Is the tempo loss of hand hate too much of a drawback or is removing their Leonin Arbiters (hate that card) worth it?

Thanks!

Remand is bad. Darkblast kills their mana creatures, Thalia, Mindcensors, Flickerwisps, etc. Lists vary a lot, so it's effectiveness also varies.

Discard is fine against them. Terminate is good because it trades with a creature. Their beatdown isn't very fast (usually), so you have time to set up.

I realized that after I posted that aha. I used to use Rakdos Charm as twin hate so I completely forgot about that ability. Also- have you considered running a third Snapcaster Mage? I'm saving up for a third one so I'm wondering how two works out for you.

Thanks. Guess I'll try that out. Voice of Resurgence takes a big steamy duke on my deck, so I know I can't make the matchup favored, but I also don't mind accepting it as a bad matchup since it isn't super popular yet.

uskie 2 Snaps is a budget thing. If budget weren't an issue, I'd have Lilis, 4 Snaps, Damnation.... (leaves the computer daydreaming about winning the lottery)

Oh man dude, what a nice deck. My only suggestion would be to drop the go for the throat for a Murderous Cut, but either way man, nice deck. +1!

Thanks! I run GFTT because affinity is favored anyway so I can handle 1 dead card and there are just enough pro-red problem cards that I like having a non-red removal spell. Additionally, I can avoid fetching as aggressively against aggro decks if I have this and pay BB or UB for it rather than having to have RB. Murderous Cut is not preferred because this deck can't delve quite effectively enough to support it. Also, I can't pay with delve if I try to Snapcaster Mage it, so that doesn't work either. It's some pretty subtle reasons to play GFTT rather than Cut, but I'm pretty sure that it's correct.

You run out of graveyard :P

I like Go for the Throat over Cut here, but only two of your four reasons hold water.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that since Snapcaster Mage is giving it flashback, which is an alternate cost, additional alternate costs cannot be used in conjunction, such as Delve. I thought I read somewhere that it doesn't work, but I may be confusing it with the rulings for overload. I for sure that you can't pay overload when paying flashback. I'll make a post in the rulings forum, if it hasn't been asked already.

Delve isn't an additional cost, its a way of paying the cost. So you can still delve even when you flashback a Murderous Cut.

Alternate casting costs are formatted "rather than pay cardname's mana cost". Delve still works on flashback.