R/W Hate

[vallver]

Well... I have been playing this deck for a while and it seems to do well against top tier decks such as gat, ichorid or flash


// Lands
4  Wasteland
1  Strip Mine
4  Plateau
2  Plains
1  Mountain
2  Flooded Strand
1  Bloodstained Mire

// Creatures
4  Magus of the Moon
4  Jotun Grunt
4  Boros Swiftblade
3  Gorilla Shaman (1)
2  White Knight
2  Kataki, War's Wage

// Spells
1  Mox Sapphire
3  Pithing Needle
4  Umezawa's Jitte
1  Black Lotus
1  Mox Emerald
1  Mox Jet
4  Leyline of the Void
1  Mox Ruby
1  Mox Pearl
4  AEther Vial
1  Balance
4  Lightning Bolt

// Sideboard
SB: 4  Rule of Law
SB: 3  Leyline of Singularity
SB: 4  Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 4  Ghostly Prison

I would like some advice on how to improve the deck

thanks!!

[crovax]

Your stax game must be good also, with 6 Kataki?
Just pointing out a typo.

Do you really need 4 Jitte? I should think that for an aggro deck, even a vintage one 3 should work fine.
What has your playtesting showed? Do you sit on extra Jitte?

Same for the grunt.

I really like having Barbarian ring in my red aggro decks. The ability to deal 2 damage from a colorless source can be important.

[Liiva]

I have a few suggestions:
- You have some 4-ofs which should be dropped to 3 since drawing multiples usually isn't good, i'm talking about jitte (it's legendary as well), jotun grunt and aether vial.
- Since this is a hate deck, I think you should try to fit in 3 aven mindcensors. They stop tutors, fetches and hulk.
- The pithing needles seem more like side board cards, obviously naming bazaar vs Ichorid is a pretty good play but what are you going to pick vs GAT or Flash.
- The lightning bolts seem a bit random, i'm guessing you use these mostly to get rid of opposing creatures? if so, isn't swords to plowshares better?
- Boros Swiftblade obviosly is a beast with jitte, but without it he basicly does nothing..

@ Crovax:
I don't think barbarian ring will work in this deck with magus and grunt disabling it.

Anyways, good luck with the deck