Dies to Removal

I would think that in a Standard RDW list, maindecking 1-2 Roast is doing a lot to improve the Abzan Matchup while not exactly being terrible against everything else except control which is a decent matchup anyways.

Purp, wouldn't Firedancer or Eidolon (if we have it) be a reasonable SB Choice against Rally decks?

On The Control MU, I noticed most of you have dropped Eidolon from your board. Against real control decks, it looks like you would have very few cards to bring in (in your list Purp, you would almost be forced to Side in Arc Lightning just to get rid of your Searing Bloods... )

On Firedancer... Isn't there some tension between this card and Roast when you SB against eg RG Devotion?

Purp, I've seen a rather varied mix of control on Magic online decks, including Esper Dragons and creatureless ones.

I agree that Swiftspear is a better Goblin Guide in this deck, but how good is Berserker as a 1 drop? It gets effectively blocked by tokens, Wayfinder and Walker, so as much as I'd like 8 1-drops, I'm not sure about him.

Here's where I am at the moment:

[deck]Atarka Burn[/deck]

Valley Dasher is an experiment, my experience with him is that he's playable in a Meta where Searing Blood is good. My feeling is the meta is speeding up quite a bit compaed to pre-origins so at the moment, I prefer not to run any 3CMC creatures at all.

Well done MDU, good to get some MTGO testing results in.

It seems Searing Blood is very well positioned in the current meta, with even the control decks running targets such as Hangarback Walker and Satyr Wayfinder. Should we up the count by one, maybe at the expense of the fourth outburst?

I think there's definitely some tension between Satyr Firedancer and Roast in the SB and Roast should get the nod for being more versatile.