Had a dream that I was playing R/W. List was something like this:
[deck]
Creatures 16
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Seeker of the Way
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
Spells 22
4 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
4 Searing Blood
4 Stoke the Flames
3 Deflecting Palm
3 Chained to the Rocks
Lands 22
11 Mountain
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Battlefield Forge
1 Wind-Scarred Crag
2 Plains
Sideboard 13
2 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
2 Ashcloud Phoenix
3 Wind-Scarred Crag
3 Banishing Light
2 Circle of Flame
1 Chained to the Rocks
[/deck]
2 slots in the sideboard, with likely nods to
Arc Lightning, more
Circle of Flame,
Anger of the Gods, and
Chandra, Pyromaster.
Reprisal,
Erase,
Suspension Field.
Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
The plan seems to be:
Game 1,
The Embodiment of the Beatdown.
Game 2, if prudent,
Suprise! I'm Now Playing R/W Control.
The maindeck seems good enough to work on it's own, so someone could probably make an actual sideboard for it and have some success.
Been testing mainboard games against Kevin Jones Jeskai burn list, which I expect to be very popular this weekend.
The R/W list seems to just be crushing it. With R/W on the play, it's not much of a game really, and even with R/W on the draw, the games are still in favor of the 2-color deck. I think it's just a matter of consistency.
Haven't had any issues casting CttR with this mana base either.
I need to get some paper games in today though, to make sure it's not just Cockatrice's shuffler giving me the nuts every game or something. I also need to figure out what Kevin Jones sideboard plan would be, and how I can attack it in games 2 and 3.
After that, I'll be testing matches against RUG Tempo, MGD, and Abzan if I can find someone who actually has it sleeved today. So far, the deck seems pretty solid, really straightforward lines of play, and just consistent.
I think Ride Down is a fine substitute if 10 Mountains won't get you there as often as you want.
I really hate that card, and I'm not sure why.