Aggressive deck I'm brewing for my wife. She came to an FNM with me the other day, but I hadn't sat down and built a deck with her. I handed her the monoblack control deck that I've put together for metagame testing, and she like it. However, control's not really her style so now I'm trying to make something aggressive that plays swamps. When I look at this deck side-by-side with RB Zombies from last standard, I see a couple similarities.

CARD CHOICES:

8x 1-drop. Tormented Hero is a Diregraf Ghoul with a rare upside that interacts with Deviant Glee , which is a big reason why that card's in here. Rakdos Cackler is a reliable card in any Rakdos deck.

Tymaret, the Murder King can provide reach in a stalled board, and when sacrificing humans, Xathrid Necromancer feeds him. Vague shoutout to Blood Artist here.

Rakdos Shred-Freak is a card that I'm not entirely sold on. He's hasty which is nice, but I think I'm going to end up using Thrill-Kill Assassin instead.

Pack Rat is a card that needs no introduction. It's outrageously powerful. This deck doesn't draw a lot of cards though so is it even wise to go with all 4? I'm using 2 for now.

Mogis's Marauder can explode nonblack decks' faces. If he's going to stay, I need to figure out a sideboard option for monoblack. This and Doom Blade are intentionally, obviously bad against mono-black to make sideboarding simpler for my wife. She doesn't play often and few people at my shop (the only place she really plays) run monoblack. He and Xathrid Necromancer give a chance for more damage straight to the dome plus recursion like Geralf's Messenger did oh so well.

Dreadbore for now because 21 lands. If I increase land count, probably will switch to Hero's Downfall. This deck isn't likely to leave mana open for surprises though. If something needs dead, it's just as good to mainphase kill it and swing.

Deviant Glee gives a little bit of reach as well as an alternative method to kill big creatures besides Doom Blade. Also triggers Tormented Hero . In a hyper aggro deck, sometimes that 1 point drain can win.

1 Mogis, God of Slaughter either burns the opponent or gets rid of blockers/threats. Both modes are great for me, and he's generally harder to remove than Desecration Demon though admittedly less board pressure.