RUG Aggro-Control

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Essentially this deck is a fusion of RUG Tempo/Thresh with the Punishing Fire/Grove combo. Of course, the deck is far from a clone of the RUG deck: it plays many much slower cards and it doesn't lay on the land destruction nearly as thick. In exchange, it has a better long game and can put the insane Punishing Grove combo to work.

2 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Island
4 Wasteland

4 Tarmogoyf
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Vendilion Clique

4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Punishing Fire
2 Dismember
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Life from the Loam

--- Sideboard (I'm not sure what to have here) ---
4 Spell Pierce/Flusterstorm
3 Tormod's Crypt/Surgical Extraction
3 Pyroblast
2 Submerge
2 Firespout
1 Engineered Explosives

I'm still not sure about the sideboard. I decided against maindeck Snapcaster because I really didn't want to lower my instant/sorcery count, which would be counterproductive because Snapcaster and Delver run best on high instant/sorcery counts, and because Vendilion Clique is awesome and is a far better threat than Tiago.