First and foremost, allow me to say one thing. You're a Rakdos aggro deck. Your job is fairly simple, you want to overrun the opponent with a quick string of aggression and not allow a Mid-Range, Mill, Reanimator, or other late game deck get online.

Your deck isn't operating fast enough.

Now, I could be mistaken, but this seems like your typical standard B/R Suicide Aggro deck. With this in mind, I've made my former comments. Why?

You have too much dead weight that doesn't have immediate board presence, and needs an additional turn to become active. These instances include Exquisite Blood , Stromkirk Captain . Vampire Nighthawk , and more.

Try the following out, and see how it performs.

Ash Zealot - Reanimator / Flashback Hate and cost effective beater

Falkenrath Aristocrat - Staple card for B/R Aggro.

Thundermaw Hellkite - Clears Restoration Angel , Angel of Serenity , Lingering Souls , and more for combat damage.

Searing Spear - Creature removal and direct damage

Brimstone Volley - Morbid trigger for five damage for three mana, works well alongside Vexing Devil on turn four.

Bump in the Night - Immediate damage

Skullcrack - Eliminates stabilization from Thragtusk , Centaur Healer , Sphinx's Revelation , and more.

Cheers BaronBelial, The reason for some of the dead weight is only because I have a few of those cards already, so seemed a shame to not put them in (purely a budget issue, but that's easily resolved, providing I can get them at a good price/trade). I'm still very much a noob & even most of the basic terminology eludes me, having just come back from a +10yr break, so I wasn't quite sure in terms of 'suicide aggro' etc this deck was... cheers for clearing that up :P

The reason behind the Captain, was to buff some of the other vamps, which in turn would then also gain the buff from Exava. But I can see how stuff like this is slowing down the deck a little.... I'll see what I can do with your suggestions... I do like the look of that zealot though :)

Actually, Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch and Stromkirk Captain do not work together, SpitFirePunk.

Stromkirk Captain gives a static bonus of +1/+1 alongside First Strike.

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch says "Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste."

Due to the fact Stromkirk Captain's bonus is a static modifier and not a counter, he has no synergy alongside Exava.

If I might recommend it, you may want to reconsider your current deck list. You may be better off converting to Red Deck Wins or Gruul Deck Wins. For example, you could try the following for Gruul Deck Wins.

4 Boros Reckoner

4 Burning-Tree Emissary

4 Ash Zealot

4 Flinthoof Boar

4 Ghor-Clan Rampager

4 Hellrider

1 Pyrewild Shaman

4 Rakdos Cackler

4 Stromkirk Noble

3 Skullcrack

4 Searing Spear

As of right now, that is considered one of the fastest aggro decks in standard and won 2nd place at the Wyoming invitational.

Ahhhh... bollocks...lol. Cheers for that, no more late night, drunk deckbuilding for me then haha.

I'll look into some other decks then, I do like the look of those Gruul decks, but I would like to try and keep this R/B as much as possible. Thanks again BaronBelial

You can take a peak at a BR deck that I've had great success with In For the Kill (4-0 FNM).

Cheers fluffybunnypants,

Yeah there's a few cards there I could probably incorporate into mine, such as Stonewright . But seeing as I have swamps in mine & most of my creatures have haste, I think things like Lightning Mauler fall short of things like Spike Jester . Thanks again though :)

Spike Jester is alright, I prefer going Burning-Tree Emissary , emissary again with the floating mana, then Lightning Mauler with that floating mana turn two. You swing for 4 plus whatever you got into play turn 1 and have an extra creature out for turn 3. I used to run with shred freaks as my turn two and I was finding that it didn't ramp fast enough to be a threat, tried jesters and it was worse. There's also nothing wrong with going noble or stonewright + mauler after a board wipe. From the looks of it you really need the ramp and lower cmc.

Your swamps are hurting you. 7 lands that only produce black mana is a lot when the most black mana it takes to cast anything you have is one and all but two of your creatures only need red. If you're not looking to cut back on your black mana base and go more towards a rdw build, you should be looking at cards like Geralf's Messenger and Gravecrawler because your jester is the only early creature you use black mana to cast. Right now, if you're sitting on 2 swamps turn two, you're sunk against any good aggro or control deck. Also, if you are sitting on 3 swamps and one red mana source on turn four with a hellrider, not an aristocrat, in your hand, you'll be pissed. Add another Blood Crypt and Dragonskull Summit and swap a bunch of swamps out for Mountain s.

Also maybe a bunch of Pillar of Flame would be good for spot removal. Electrickery for a quick token clear that doesn't waste bonfire. I would sideboard rakdos charm for something less situational, I only use it for witchbane orbs and re-animator decks.

Oh yeah, and Blasphemous Act would probably help you out, especially if you pick up reckoner.

TL;DR: Aggro needs a solid mana base and mana ramp to be efficient which is why successful decks only splash another color at most. Cut back on black mana and high cmc cards, add lower cmc cards. If you want to be midrange, rakdos is not for you. Blasphemous Act + Boros Reckoner is overpowered.

Ahhhh I see what you mean now about the emissary & mauler fluffybunnypants. Hmmmm, I guess my decade+ of not playing really does show itself on most occasions haha.

Under this advice I'll remove the swamps & increase the non-basic lands, as well as having a little fiddle with some of the creatures.
Thanks once again :)

Your friendly neighborhood fluffybunnypants is just here to help. Glad I could be of assistance.

haha, I'm glad too fluffybunnypants :)

How do you feel about cards such as Dual Casting , Shrieking Affliction & Vigilante Justice for this deck?

Dual Casting could be good in a Guttersnipe Delver of Secrets  ^Flip deck. For the most part, burn no longer exists except in Modern where you have fifty gazillion different versions of Lightning Bolt .

Shrieking Affliction loses hard against control decks, but if you wanted to make a Sire Of Insanity Deadbridge Chant deck, that could work nicely.

Vigilante Justice would be great in a deck like Basic Naya Blitz, but, based on it's cmc, it seems that something like Kessig Malcontents would be better.

ahhh fair play then. I actually have some 10+ year old lightning bolts, but my brother has my old red deck which he forgot to bring back over the weekend :( This deck has got quite a bit of burn in it, so not sure how valuble the dual cast could be... though the Malcontents seems quite nice.

Well I'm not going to be making anymore decks for a while, just finished off & testing An Artists' Price (my first ever standard deck) at the moment (waiting on a couple cards) & I'm a broke student. So gunna focus on this one so I have 2 standard decks & my casual life gain one for the moment.

For the most part, the town I live in has just been granted FNM (though doesn't start till mid June), so not a great deal of players here. So a lot of situation cards can quite as easily be in the main deck, they mostly will find their way into the game haha.

FNM is a lot of fun. Just keep an open mind with your deck. My first FNM back from not playing for a long time found me 1-3 for the night. Getting to know the newer mechanics and what other decks have is really as integral to success as knowing how to play yours.

Couldn't agree more fluffybunnypants.

Was enough of a shock to discover no mana burn & things like 'attacking doesn't cause to tap = vigilance' etc etc. I have to look at every card an opponent plays as quite often I have no idea what it is haha.

Yep, I was in that same spot not too long ago haha.

I don't think wild ricochets copy would trigger guttersnipe only because you didn't cast the copy. It copied a spell already on the stack. Bummer cuz that wouod be pretty cool whch is probably why it was worded the way it is. It would be too OP

Ahhh that's a shame :( oh well, I still think it's an amazingly annoying card for a predominantly Red deck. especially for when I'm playing control/mill decks etc :P

Cheers for your comment Bellock86 :)