[Deck] Dreadstill - Enter the Fist

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Thought I'd share some results I've had with a dreadstill/RUG-brew I've been testing for a while. Went 4-0 in a weekly local yesterday (25 players) with this pile:

4 dreadnought
4 delver
3 grim lavamancer
2 vendilion clique

4 ponder
4 brainstorm
1 preordain

4 stifle
4 lightning bolt
4 force of will
3 daze
3 spell snare
2 vision charm

4 wasteland
3 volcanic island
2 tropical island
1 island
8 blue fetch

SB
4 nimble mongoose
3 REB/pyro
2 forked bolt
1 krosan grip
1 ancient grudge
1 engineered explosives
1 gilded drake
1 grafdigger's cage
1 rough // tumble

The maindeck is straight up UR Stiflenought, with Ponder over Standstill and thus no manlands. I like standstill a lot, but sometimes it really just sits dead on my hand, and the fact is that the dedicated dreadnought-plan fits poorly with not being able to cantrip for enablers (or vice versa if you have an enabler with no dreadnought), so I went for a big fat 9 quality cantrips. The other big similarity you will note is to that of Eric Prem's list. The few red spells (lavamancer and bolts) could easily be exchanged for tombstalkers and black removal/discard, and you'd still have a percectly good maindeck. My preference to red is due to the reach, lavamancer's superior standing in the current meta, and sideboard options.

Now, the thing that really sticks out are the 4 mongoose in the SB. I feel very exposed dropping any of the easily killed creatures against any UW-based deck. UW miracles in particluar, but the GP Denver winning EsperBlade as well. On the other hand, when I play RUG I feel I can't lose to any of those decks. Just drop one (1!) mongoose and counter everything relevant. Which explains my SB and tropical islands.

My matches yesterday were

R1, against Death and taxes, 2-0. Dreadnought with Fow no later than turn 3 in both games. Glad I was not on regular RUG in this game, as colored creatures would get chumped all day by mother of runes.

R2, Jund, 2-1. He got the first one, but by substituting Fows for all my additional removal postboard I got there, primarily by denying him mana and killing Bob and deahtrite shamans, ignoring everything else due to my creatures evasion.

R3, Esperblade, 2-0. Again, manasrew him won me G1. G2 I substituted dreadnoughts, charm and lavamancer for mongoose, REBs and artifact removal. Worked like a charm.

R4, UR Painter, 2-1. My wins was due to delvers alone, and him taking damage from his Ancient tombs. I fought well for the game I lost, but could not play all my answers (charm, stifle, bolt) in response to a grindstone activation due to only having seen one land...

It's probably not the next big thing, but if you like playing tempo-decks (which, of course, you do! =)) and agree with me that tarmogoyf is the worst card in RUG, then I recommend you try this deck out. It's pretty fun.