I've been playing this deck for a few months casually and have been playing it in tournaments for a few weeks. Nobody is packing specific hate against it, but I have been able to play around removal spells when trying to build a big ravager. I tried going on the offensive a little more and played 4 vault skirges. Vault skirge seems to be key in the deck personally because it actually is very well suited in the format. It can't be mistepped because it has a converted mana cost of 2, it has evasion in flying, which is important when building up a big beater with ravager, and it has lifelink which makes racing very easy. Vault skirge having flying also gives the deck a better way to fight grislebrand. I don't know it is more correct to suit up the vault skirge to make it an 8/8 and risk a removal spell, but in racing situations I am able to simply block with the skirge and sac before damage to prevent the life-gain. I would need someone with more experience in the format to make the decision.
I won my last local tournament with the deck, and before that went 4-0 into top four and lost. There doesn't seem to be any combo decks in my local meta, unless oath is considered combo, so I haven't yet had to deal with just losing on the spot.
I've made some small changes, but because I haven't been playing the deck against a more varied field, I probably ended up making cuts that I should not have made. I was playing around with the idea of playing some basic islands and splashing master of etherium, but I'm not sure if I have enough sources. The singleton mox opal is because it is part of my 15 cards proxied, but also because chalice on zero has been a killing, so I don't know how much better it would make the deck.
Maindeck: 4 Arcbound Ravager 1 Sol Ring 1 Wasteland 1 Strip Mine 1 Mana Crypt 4 Skullclamp 4 Genesis Chamber 4 Memnite 4 Mishra's Workshop 3 Steel Overseer 4 Signal Pest 4 Vault Skirge 3 Thorn of Amethyst 1 Frogmite 4 Ancient Tomb 2 Gaea's Cradle 1 Tolarian Academy 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Opal 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Mox Ruby 4 Phyrexian Revoker 4 Lodestone Golem
Sideboard: 4 Witchbane Orb 4 Grafdigger's Cage 1 Tangle Wire 1 Thorn of Amethyst 1 Phyrexian Metamorph 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Contagion Clasp 1 Pithing Needle 1 Sphere of Resistance
My sideboard right now is just me trying to figure out what I want to do with the deck. I am playing around with contagion clasp for a few reasons. I can cast it off workshop, I can proliferate the +1/+1 counters from both ravager and overseer, its an artifact that I can theoretically tap to tangle wire, and if I have the spare mana, I can just keep tangle wire going.
edit: was stupid and trying to go from memory, updated to real list.
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