Dies to Removal

[deck]Lands
4 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Flooded Strand
3 Plains
2 Mountain
1 Island
1 Swamp
2 Mystic Monastery
2 Prairie Stream
2 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
Creatures
2 Dragonmaster Outcast
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Jace, Vyrn’s Prodigy
4 Mantis Rider
1 Butcher of the Horde
Noncreature Spells
1 Dispel
2 Wild Slash
1 Fiery Impulse
3 Valorous Stance
4 Crackling Doom
1 Jeskai Charm
2 Ojutai’s Command
3 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
3 Dig Through Time
Sideboard
3 Arashin Cleric
2 Surge of Righteousness
2 Dispel
2 Disdainful Stroke
3 Radiant Flames
2 Touch of the Void
1 Ojutai’s Command[/deck]

this is my current build.

Roc should be Ojutai, 24 lands w/o Anticipate is ambitious and Jeskai Charm does indeed suck.

Honestly Brimaz, Ashcloud and Stormbreath are the best against Abzan and Mardu. More importantly though, Abzan is losing popularity, GR Bees and GB Devotion are both actual bad matches and it's not great against Ascendancy (The Heroic version) either. Jeskai w/ a controlling board or quad Ashcloud I think is close to 50/50 anyway. This deck may end up better positioned simply by being able to better adapt to how the meta develops and being able to run countermagic vs. the Big Green decks.

Tested a tweak to your list all night jsilv, LOVE the way Jace played.

2 Sarkhan
1 Jace
1 Chandra


Also dig is broken.

Oh I like that. This may actually be a place where Jace happens to line up well. And yeah, Dig is super good.

Seeker is the fucking nut, I can't believe we were missing that card in this deck. Great two-drop that also buys 2-3 turns vs. most decks if it connects and isn't a dead draw later since you can pump it by not flushing your cards down the shitter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7GA4EZZrw

Otherwise really like how this lines up vs. most midrange in the format.

EDIT: Testing this sometime next week for sure.

[deck]Creatures (12)
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Mantis Rider
4 Seeker of the Way

Planeswalkers (4)
2 Chandra, Pyromaster
2 Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

Spells (20)
2 Dig Through Time
2 Magma Spray
4 Lightning Strike
4 Arc Lightning
4 Jeskai Charm
4 Stoke the Flames

Lands (24)
3 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Island
3 Flooded Strand
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Mystic Monastery
3 Shivan Reef
2 Temple of Epiphany
2 Temple of Triumph

Sideboard
4 Ashcloud Phoenix
3
Narset, Enlightened Master
2 Harness by Force
2 Deflecting Palm
1 Dig Through Time
3 Disdainful Stroke[/deck]

Ashcloud may even belong MD over Rabblemaster tbh considering how much Abzan was floating around at the Open despite it not doing amazingly well. People are just also much better prepared for the card than I anticipated, since usually it doesn't matter how much red gets talked up, people die to it a lot. This year too many people were prepared or just played the natural midrange counter to the red decks. Just switching to evasive threats or a big trump like Narset is a big game. The best way to trump dumb things like Siege Rhino is going through them or playing threats that ignore them effectively. Keranos is another option that's on the table for this deck.