I built this deck in response to the Naya Blitz deck I'd been hearing about and I wanted to see if I could beat the deck with a cheaper build but with more punch. So what I am trying to do is create a fast and hard hitting deck using Bloodrush with small creatures. I have made the deck already and I'm planning to bring it to my FNM soon. From the play tests I've done so far most of my games look like this:
Turn 1: Blood Crypt , Overgrown Tomb , or Stomping grounds ; and then I play either a Tormented Soul , Rakdos Cackler , or a Wasteland Viper .
Turn 2: I play either a Dragonskull Summit , Woodland Cemetery , or a Rootbound Crag (based on what land I first played and what's in my hand) . Now I attack with the creature I cast on my first turn and bloodrush any of the following: Ghor-Clan Rampager , Rubblebelt Maaka , and/or a Slaughterhorn . (Note: I've noticed that I can deal as much as 8 damage by my 2nd turn if I play it right)
Turn 3: I play any land as needed and continue to bloodrush the creature I cast. As I have played the deck at home I noticed that by this turn I've taken my opponent for 15 life and should have him/her pretty desperate by now. If I can't bloodruch for lack of cards in hand I usually have a Grisly Salvage to play for more bloodrush cards or I can play a Markov Blademaster, she's really nasty!!!
Turn 4: Assuming my creature hasn't been killed or removed by now, or my opponent is distracted by the Markov Blademaster, I deal a death blow if I'm set up properly to do so with bloodrush.
So that is how some of my games have went when I play tested the deck. The best way that I've found to play the deck so far id to bloodrush a Tormented Soul , this is because he's unblockable and not worthy of attention til you're almost dead. In my experience playing the deck I noticed that it's hard for my opponents to catch on to what I'm doing when I switch things up a bit. Sometimes I play the Rakdos Cackler or Wasteland Viper instead and my opponent didn't think I would do the same thing twice, yet these two guys stand a better chance against the cheap burn spells that would hit my Tormented Soul a lot. I guess I need advice on what to do against the burn spells that hit my little guys that I'm sneaking through with bloodrush, that so far is the only problem I've encountered with playing the deck. Counter magic isn't a big issue against this deck cause you can't normally counter bloodrush with a counter spell. And lastly I put in Dreadbore to take care of pesty creatures I don't want on the battlefield and I also included the Elixir of Immortality as a way to keep my deck from burning out after a few rounds and to gain some life back from the shock lands, this card also helps after I've played Grisly Salvage a few times. Oh!!! I guess it's not a big secret as to why I put Deviant Glee in the deck, it's a sweet little card and helps with the bloodrush when I get going with it, so that card doesn't need much explaining.
Any thoughts or advice on my decklist and strategy is much appreciated :)
