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Played FNM tonight, went 2-2-0. Pretty happy for night one of my first night back on the magic scene!

I was beaten into the ground by a blue/white spirits deck because of Spell Queller, and I lost to a preconstructed black/white zombies deck because mine just --didn't go off--, but …

In short, this deck performed wonders about 50% of the time.

At FNM it played nearly perfectly of the four rounds I was there I was able to take down RG energy, RW vehicles, but lost to a different RG energy deck. I was able to make it into the …

Today I played a couple rounds with this deck at FNM. Although my record wasn't great 1-2, my deck did surprisingly well against top tier standard decks like RG Energy and RW Vehicle.
One thing that I did notice, however, is that on each of the games that I won, …

I swapped out Hellkite Tyrant for Blightsteel Colossus after I had Tyrant used against me by a Mizzix deck. My deck pretty much folded.

Also cut Pentavus for Strionic Resonator, since Resonator does useful work in this build.

I've done a bit of tweaking and found out that the instants that draw cards are much better than almost every other instant (which is why I run less burn now, and more Anticipate, Defiant Strike, and Ojutai's Command) because during combat you will more often than not draw into …