Thanks for your input!

I have to say I didn't think she looked good here either but I wanted to try her. I haven't been pleased with her in the matches I have ran the deck and she is going to be cut. Probably for a second Hellhound.

I'm surprised you guys don't like her. I've had great luck with her so far. Nissa is the only one I'm not sold on.

You have to play 2 red spells in a turn to morph her. I feel she is only worth while if you are only splashing a secondary color or mono red. I am moreso black with red splashed.

@ True_Believer:

Myrs have been super helpful over in my Dimir Control deck (which has the most play time currently and is a blast!)

This deck took the black that has proven to work for me, and combined it with the burn and bombs red has to offer. Maybe I don't need them as much here since I have twin bolt and firey impulse to negate early agression. I will mull over ideas to replace them with and do some testing without them. I could see 2 becoming +1 impulse, +1 hellhound. What do you envision for the other 2?

EDIT: I am thinking the other 2 have gotta be Ravaging Blaze. More removal and potential to finish. Yeah.. those are the changes I will test here. -4 myr +1 impulse +1 hellhound +2 Ravaging Blaze

No you don't, one attack and a red spell gets you there, she just needs to deal 3 damage, and the last using her tap effect.

Oh yeah. I forgot you could attack with her.

Today 2bestest learned that creatures can attack!

I'm an idiot

You reached my conclusion without the need for me to tell. Black and red have many spells with spell mastery. Why use Perilous Myr when you can use other spells to do the same and activate spell mastery earlier?

Perilous Myr is a good card to stall the game. It can kill two creatures small creatures or a 3/3 creature. But it is not because of that it will go into every deck you need to stall the early game.

Nevermind, it's already been said.

Alright made the tweaks. Thanks for the input True_Believer I think you were probably right. Going to give this one some solid play time finally as I think I am very happy with where my Dimir Control pile is sitting.

If you add green to the mix, you can sac creatures to Evolutionary Leap and make up for the card disadvantage.

I am a big fan of perilous myr but I would agree that it isn't always needed in red. Red just has much better early removal options than other colors.

Not a ton of games in yet, but deff feel something isn't right with the changes I made. I am not consistent at all at holding down earlier threats. I feel the Myr may be a necessary evil. Gonna keep going before I set anything in stone. But it doesn't feel right. When the myr were there, I held out far better.

To make a great Rakdos deck just add the following -

4 x Perilous Myr
4 x Nantuko Husk
2 - 4 Goblin Arsonist
2 - 4 Bone Splinters
4 - 8 Twinbolt and/or Reave Soul

Now you have a nice value package to run your midrange deck around, aggro decks will be miserable and control decks will be forced to deal with tiny creatures that annoy them.

Now add 2 - 5 Act of Treason/Traitorous Instinct (remember Bone Splinters can be a nasty sac option), your favorite rates and mythics, some Read the Bones just cuz, and go win some games

What has always turned me off about steal and sac decks is how reliant they are on your enemies playing creatures. (I know you pretty much gotta run creatures now but still.)

I do think nantuko and splitters help alot this time around.

Don't get me wrong, I hate em'! I hate steal and sac decks, but they will be popular because they will give a hard time to all the creature decks. Therefore, I play one quite a bit to get the feel for it. I find them easy to beat with control decks, which is great! Here is what seems to happen a lot right now -

G/w, W/U, Red, B/G elves, G elves < R/B Midrange steal-sac < various Control, mostly three color decks based on Flameshadow or B/U traditional control.

So R/B kills all those annoying weenie decks, and us control players mop up R/B, because it relies on enemies playing creatures! Hence, my almost creatureless B/U mill control really mops up. So see, I hate R/B, but I love it because it makes winning with control much easier

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mdo-rakd ... /?cat=cost

Does the link work?

Here's my updated theorycraft Rakdos Control deck. I'm also testing Tappedout's deckbuilder :-)

It isn't working for me.

And now? I had it as private before.

Yep, works, looks great. I wonder if there is a way to embed them. That would solve literally everything.