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Yea, I had been messing around with rakdos burn/wizards before, and theater of horrors seems like a better sword-point diplomacy for the deck. The token/sacrifice angle seems legit too.

Uhh.. 8 sources is already a bit light to cast heroic reinforcements on turn 4 consistently. Ideally you'd want about 10. 8 sources is perfectly fine.

Light the stage is gonna be a divination in the matchups you need it to work, its not worth it. In the games you need the card advantage, you probably aren't getting in damage reliably.
edit: Theater lets you dump your mana to burn them in a super long game as well, which is very relevant.. Light the stage might draw you a reinforcements and judith when you can't cast either, and if you only cast one the next turn then it wasnt card advantage.

ugh.. i glanced over the list. He actually has 14 white sources, which is way better, because he has a bunch of other white cards in the sideboard that I missed. With a deck like this, your life total is practically irrelevant. If you are concerned about your life, something has gone wrong anyway.

Kiroy said:

another one I threw together

3 Theater of Horrors (RNA) 213
5 Swamp (RIX) 194
7 Mountain (RIX) 195
4 Judith, the Scourge Diva (RNA) 185
3 Legion Warboss (GRN) 109
4 Runaway Steam-Kin (GRN) 115
3 Spawn of Mayhem (RNA) 85
3 Fanatical Firebrand (RIX) 101
4 Fireblade Artist (RNA) 172
4 Shock (M19) 156
3 Lightning Strike (XLN) 149
4 Skewer the Critics (RNA) 115
4 Blood Crypt (RNA) 245
4 Dragonskull Summit (XLN) 252
3 Footlight Fiend (RNA) 216
2 Rekindling Phoenix (RIX) 111

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oh man.. i made a slightly different version on arena (dont have 4 judiths yet) but I just crushed 5 people in a row. Even hands I wasnt sure were very good, ended up being OP as fuck. Got stuck on 2 lands against mono-blue aggro, he bounced my runaway steam-kin FOUR times (Exclusion mage, exclusion mage, quasiduplicate x2) to stall me even more, which should have been enough, but I made some good trades and around turn 7 i drew 3rd land and judith just wrecked him. Won at 1 life, too.
I think people on Arena are still playing the old meta decks mostly, and it just crushes all those. They were all setup to either be grindy value decks (golgari), beat those grindy decks (control/izzet drakes) or go under the grindy decks (mono-blue/red aggro). You are way faster than the non-aggro decks, and you can play a good control game against those. All your pings add up to card advantage against tiny creatures, and they don't have a card advantage engine as good as theater of horrors. I haven't played against golgari yet, and if they are the 4x wildgrowth walker w/ 8+ explore guys, I could see it being a tough one. It feels a bit like old rabblemaster red, but possibly I'm jumping to conclusions too early. Maybe the meta just needs to adjust and it'll get hated out easily.

Went 12-0 before losing to an afterlife deck. When they can trade and leave behind 1/1s, that seems pretty tough to beat.

Mkay, fourth prerelease got snow-blocked, so only had 2 extra codes to give out, which I PM'd to people in order of request.