Sure, the tools are there. But running hot is definitely not dependent on the 75 one registers. And slowly doing something in legacy isn't a winning strategy.

Looking at the Rw lists and keller's list, there is little different between them. 19/20 lands and 5 accelerators, the skeleton of the deck with 6-8 blasts, 5-6 moons, a toolbox of 3 critters (more or less), the combo and a couple meta game slots and CA. When the decks contain all of about the same thing, one must look to outside influences to draw conclusions on either the card choices one makes, or if the deck is the right one to use when one wants to do well in a tournament.

When referring to the former, the difference between the lists looks like one swaps out Enlightened tutor (and obv reworking the mana base) for creature removal. It's definitely not a wrong call. But when considering a given meta game, it appears to be a good choice for tribal/delver/fair deck metas. The white splash, and subsequently the black splash, affords haymakers that plug holes in bad match ups which typically involve fast combo, eldrazi decks, and blue based combo.

When referring to the later, no one decides when they run hot. Likewise, through variance one can't help having the deck crap out, a series of bad match ups and so on.

So it boils down to a question of variance given one's meta: how much variance is acceptable to afford the best chance to do well in a tournament? The more variance, the more the deck has to be tuned to a specific meta. That appears to be keller's list. Again, results don't lie, and I'm not saying Keller ran hot and had nothing to do with his list's performance. He chose to register the cards that he went deep with.

Rw affords stability in any given field and one doesn't necessarily have to run hot to see the cards they need to wins game/match/tournament. But it's slower and not as focused at either dropping a hate piece or the combo asap.

I'm just curious as to if there is more insight as to why one chooses speed over consistency, besides player preference which we all know influences the card choices for this deck more than most.


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