Fun exercise from the professor.



My take on the pool overall:
White has some fliers, some great removal spells, and the most disgusting bomb rare in the set for limited. Blue is kinda eh. Black has some ok creatures and 2 kill spells. Red has some nice medium sized creatures, but no small ones, and one or two removal spells. Green has a solid creature curve and it's spells are all color fixers. Your colorless cards are all playable except for ruin processor. Resolute blademaster is nuts.

I can almost see a case for a green based 5-color good stuff, but I believe the clear winner here is the R/W Ally deck.

I think you play a BW deck that splashes red for doublestrike dude. The WR deck's mana isn't good at all.



EDIT: fixed some typos.

What do you mean rstnme? It's a 2 color deck, how can the mana be bad?

Well you need 4 red sources by turn 4, which means playing at least 9 mountains (I would say). But you need white mana by turn 1, which means you need to play 9 plains. You also need to play a land every turn until turn 5 if you're going to run a crapton of 5-drops the way the RW deck above does. Almost a third of the spells are over 4 mana, which means you'll have a lot of dead draws. It just looks like one of those decks that, when the cards line up and you curve out, it's unstoppable, but if you don't hit your mana you blame your draws.

The BW deck, on the other hand, has 10 black sources, 9 white sources, 3 red sources, and a Pilgrim's Eye to get whatever color we need or help us hit a land drop. It also curves out, and has 6 removal spells, and a bunch of evasion too. (Yes, I'm counting the Evolving Wilds as a source of each color, but that's fine.)

I don't see where you're getting 4 red sources by turn 4, I presume you meant to say 2? The R/W deck also has access to the Evolving Wilds so it can add 1 to each of it's basic land color counts. If you end up that hard up for white sources you can cut the Mortuary Mire for another plains.

As for the funky curve you do have a point there, however with BFZ format the smaller ground creatures get outclassed too quickly.
Not saying W/R is necessarily right (I haven't played enough of this format to make that call), just that I don't think it's missing as much as you might think.

That being said, I really do love your B/W mana base, it's nuts.
Red also it's own share of evasion too: 2 menace creatures, 2 trample creatures, and 1 team trample creature. Admittedly not as good as flying, but still not vanilla.

Kinda like UG here. Removal is for the gutless. Or you could splash B or W I guess.