From personal experience, I would say it is best to spend your effort and best cards on one deck instead of two. Spending time and effort to make two mediocre decks feels much less rewarding than pooling together all of your "whammy" cards and making a sick brew.
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When I clicked on this deck seeing the name, I thought that it would be a sick commander deck with uncle istvan at its helm. I was greeted instead by a generally decent red black aggro deck. Why do I feel so betrayed?
I don't think you will need 4 spirit guides. The deck looks good as is. However, I think it would play better as a pox deck that focusses on forcing them out of resources instead of out valuing. I think that a better version could be made if you instead put stuff like shrieking affliction and that jazz in the deck, because Ascension triggers EVERY end step, so you can 'rack' up a lot of quest counters quickly.
thanks for the help!
Thanks! The thing that I've noticed with Mycosynth Golem is that to play it, you need a lot of artifacts in play, which means that you must have already dropped your hand twice over. After this, his ability doesn't help you at all because you've already played all of the cards in your hand, to play this card. It being a 4/5 is negligible at this point in the game. If it was even a 7 drop it would be perfect for this deck though.
I tried Thoughtcast in early stages of the deck, and it turns out that you can't actually play it without Mox, Springleaf drum, or sometimes lotus bloom. In a deck where the point is to drop every your hand most games, having a card that can only sometimes be played and is mostly a dead card is usually very disadvantageous.
I checked it out, and it looks really cool. I took a more cheaty way of getting creatures on the battlefield, as this deck is modern.
Ok, thanks for the feedback!
there is in fact 'Less land' than a normal affinity deck, but I did consider the fact that dark steel citadel is a land in a landless deck. it was just good enough to make the deck run more smoothly.
You should put teysa and blind obedience in here.
I know the 4 cards rule, but I was thinking that it would be hilarious to have a deck with 45 myr servitors and 15 dark steel citadels, the best part being it would actually be pretty good. I appreciate your concern tho.