Major obstacle I face is not having any dual lands besides guildgates and a single Sacred Foundry .

I'm considering -2 Read the Bones for +2 Doom Blade .

As much as I love scrying and drawing cards, I love killing stuff more.

Got a good start! Looking at what you have so far in the maybeboard, I would suggest Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch in favor of some of the 4 drops. She's immune to Ultimate Price and Doom Blade and makes an immediate impact on the board. Tajic, Blade of the Legion and Firemane Avenger have never tested well for me, so maybe try her in their place.

And Banisher Priest , he just isn't Fiend Hunter man. Perhaps your Chandra's Phoenix or the Doom Blade s would work better in his spot?

And think about sticking Sire Of Insanity and your Sin Collector in the side as an extra nudge versus control - if Sire goes unanswered, Esper and UW control lose.

Anyways, just my take, you definitely have a good shell, tighten up the creature base as you acquire other cards and it should run smoothly.

Ya' know, Exava and Chandra's Phoenix were two that I initially really wanted in there, but decided against because of their secondary abilities. Exava gives other creatures with counters haste, but what other creatures of mine are going to have counters on them the turn they ETB? I otherwise really like Exava - 4/4, haste, first strike . . um, yes?

For the Phoenix - 2/2, flying & haste is good stuff, but would I be casting enough red spells to make the raise dead ability relevant?

I definitely agree on the SB options: Sire and Sin Collector. For Tajic and Firemane Avenger, now that I see how few creatures are in there now, it's unlikely they would be attacking in a battalion very often. Should I replace them both with 2x Exava, or put in 1x Exava and double-up on Doom Blade or the Phoenix?

I'm about to play test it, I'll let you know how it feels.

Play tests run pretty smoothly, but it doesn't seem like it does enough. I can kill plenty of stuff for sure, but against a control deck, I'd definitely want to trade out those removal spells for more creatures.

Mana base hasn't screwed me too badly, I can usually always cast at least one thing from my hand each turn, and I was happy to see I got the Boros Charm + Boros Reckoner + Whip of Erebos combo pretty regularly before the 15th turn.

You need more consistency, less 1 of's

This is all I have to work with. If it's not in the maybeboard I don't own it.

Would it necessarily have a better chance of winning based on consistency alone? It could very consistently let me see the same cards during the same turns every time I play it, but if those cards suck, I'd rather have a Singleton deck that did something awesome every turn, even if it was something different.

Would having 4x Thoughtseize , 4x Boros Reckoner , and 4x Desecration Demon make this deck stronger? Sure would! That 100-200$ it would cost me would also help me make my car payment this month too..

Generally, I'm not a fan of consistency. I understand its benefits and I am trying to make this deck at least somewhat competitive, but I have to work within my means here.

Then you might want to drop a color or two. Without the proper mana base and CONSISTANCY, there isn't a way for this to work out how you want. If this is just casual then forget everything I've said. If you don't understand why being consistant is a good thing then perhaps you should play edh

I've been playing Magic for 20 years, and teach mathematics for a living, so don't worry about my knowledge of how consistency works in a Magic deck.

What I don't think you understand are the key points I've repeated throughout. This is meant to be an attempt at a W/B/R deck (so 1. dropping a color or two would completely unmake the scheme, and I be left with a redundant mono- or dual-color deck that I already have constructed.), also, again, 2. if I had 4x copies of anything listed, they would be in there already.

Consistency is good if it improves the probability of good stuff. Consistency [not "CONSISTANCY" by the way] for consistency's sake is boring and unenlightened.

Please read the descriptions and updates comments for a deck before bothering to comment.

Ah yes, dat paycheck struggle. It's why I play online lol

Seriously. For the past couple weeks, I've been selling off rare singles and packaging up bulk commons by the thousands to sell off to pay for this hobby.