After a little more research and tweaking, I think I really like this deck!

I've added Jarad's Orders to fetch my Lotleth Troll or Varolz, the Scar-Striped - depending on when and what I'm in need of. Plenty of small creatures to hold me off until then.

I also constructed the sideboard. Pithing Needle and Glaring Spotlight really help out against JUND or hexproof decks. Grim Return should help me against a mill (although, no one is really playing mill at the moment). Crypt Incursion is a great midrange card in my play experience. I think I just feel safe when it's available, meh...

Mana is also nicely balanced...

Thoughts? A +1 and your comments are always welcome!

This looks a lot like an early form of my deck, Golgari brings the love. I really wanted to stick with the bloodrush/scavenge idea but I couldn't make it work so I had to go another way. But I still really like the idea.

I'd suggest Grisly Salvage to hunt for your trolls/give your Deathrite Shaman some fuel to ramp with. Also, Grim Return won't actually help you against mill. Unfortunately it specifies that the creature card had to have come from the battlefield, and mill goes directly from the library.

I'm curious how much the Giant Growth s actually help you, do you see them winning you games or would their spot be better used by Abrupt Decay s or Golgari Charm s? And I see that you took out 4 Deadbridge Goliath s? Were they just not working with the deck? a 5/5 for 4 has always seemed like a good idea to me.

Possibly since you're running alot of dual colored spells, -2 swamp and -2 forest for +4 Golgari Guildgate

While yes it is a slower land, it can have its use. I'm even seeing top 8 decks already starting to run the guildgates when they're just running 2 colors. Granted its like 2-3 gates, along with 4 shocks and 4 tapped lands.

Jarad and Varolz should only be 2x because they are legendary, and will probably be stuck in your hand. Maybe put in another putrefy and a few Deadbridge Golieth?

Woops not Deadbridge Goliath, I meant Corpsejack Menace

pingpongball120, Maxing out the Jarad and Varolz lines makes sense to get them out consistently. There's a reason Bant Hexproof runs 4 Geists even though thats a legendary creature. Not to mention with Grisly Salvage and possibly Jarad's Orders , OP could get one or two copies into the discard to either pump Jarad, or scavenge it with Varolz ability

Also, even I forgot, read Lotleth Troll closely. Discard a creature card to put a +1/+1 on it. So any spare can just be tossed into the discard no problem.

Corpsejack Menace ?

I have been play testing against my Life Flight (Post Rotation) and it is a nice deck but I think that having Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord in the deck works against your metrics. The discard works for Jarad, but the scavenge weakens him and most of your deck runs scavenge. Deadbridge Goliath is easier to cast and his scavenge is cheap with Varolz, the Scar-Striped out. Also not sure what you are using Golgari Charm for, but I don't think it is that strong here. I would run 4 Putrefy and 3 of some other removal. Just my 2 cents.

Vraska the Unseen ????

@FrostyJams - Great feedback, thank you! I have to disagree with the Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord working against my metrics. I'll almost always have creatures in my graveyard, even when Varolz, the Scar-Striped is out. Jarad simply utilizes these creatures until I scavenge. I can either swing with him, or leave him up to block while I'm swinging out with Lotleth Troll . He's also another wincon. If my opponent has blockers up and is tapped out with no possible counter/prevention - I can sac my beefed Lotleth Troll and deal instant lethal damage to my opponent. From this standpoint, would you still take him out?

Furthermore, I actually had Deadbridge Goliath in here initially, but removed him to accommodate something else. He's still on my maybeboard. As far as Putrefy goes - you're exactly right. I'm taking that suggestion right now.

@redclaw - I just don't have any Vraska the Unseen . She would be an amazing addition, so I'm adding her to the maybeboard.

Well we can agree to disagree on the metric of Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord , but I had not considered the wincon with him as my decks usually have fliers to evade blocking. That said, I use Vizkopa Guildmage to do the same thing and I would keep Jarod just for that alone. My deck Life Flight (Post Rotation) is doing really well against yours, so you may want to playtested it to look for improvements on your sideboard.

I am now considering exchanging Deadbridge Goliath for Corpsejack Menace . Thoughts?

Very cool deck, good luck at FNM!

What about Golgari Charm against Mass Removal, Young Pyromancer Decks etc?

@BlauFux - I would sideboard in my Glaring Spotlight and sac it if I had to to give all my creatures hexproof. I did have Golgari Charm in here originally, but removed it to accommodate other cards. It may find its way back in though, after some more playtesting.

Question - I would consider sideboarding it, but what would you do without from my sideboard to make room?