Quote Originally Posted by Derm View Post
All right, fair points about Serum Powder. Not a good idea.

What does this deck do against all the Show and Tell/Emrakul decks running around? There are tons of brews and combo sideboards that cheat Emrakul and Progenitus into play pretty quickly (Hypergenesis is another example) and all their 'kill' spells cost 3 (Violent Outburst, Show and Tell), so Chalice doesn't help that much.

Short of Moon effects locking opponents out, is there any tweaking that should be done to respond to this metagame shift?
You could always run Stingscourgers. He's probably Red's best answer right now. Second best would be REB/Pyroblast, which are dynamite in the format right now.

I don't still play this deck given how bad the metagame for it is at the moment (Though I like it against the Countertop and Landstill decks in the top 8.) But if I did, I'd very probably be giving some love to Stingscourger given how many decks rely in some form or another on a single giant threat.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

10 Mountain
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Seething Song

4 Chalice of the Void
3 Trinisphere
4 Blood Moon

4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Gathan Raiders
4 Rakdos Pit Dragon
4 Arc-Slogger
3 Stingscourger

SB:
4 Pithing Needle
4 Tormod's Crypt
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pyroblast