[MTG] Standard Robutts

[Poc]

I just put this together on Friday and did pretty well at FNM with it. I only lost one game because I took some really greedy mulligans and got burned for it. The deck is dirt cheap and really fun to play.

Creatures 17

4 chief engineer
4 ornithopter
4 phyrexian revoker
3 daring thief
2 scuttling doom engine

Artifacts 8

4 ghostfire blade
3 springleaf drum
1 bident of thassa

Non creature spells 15

4 lighting strike
4 magma jet
4 ensoul artifact
3 singing bell strike

Lands 20

4 Shivan reef
4 darksteel citadel
2 tomb of the spirit dragon
6 island
4 mountain

Sideboard

3 tormod's crypt
3 stoke the flames
2 negate
2 stubborn denial
2 scouring sands
1 scuttling doom engine
1 soul of phyrexia
1 aetherspout

[bury the year]

Have you considered/tested Shrapnel Blast at all?

[Poc]

I've tested it, 5 damage at instant speed is nice but you 2 for 1 or 2 for 0 yourself, I might replace stoke the flames in the sideboard with it though, stoke is a great card but it's a bit mana intensive for this deck, even with convoke.

[Gokai-Red]

Any Thought onto playing this with Black instead of Red?

[Poc]

Black has good removal but its way to mana intensive for this deck. White would be the ideal splash color for this since it has the best catch all removal in standard right now, as well as a few other goodies but it makes the mana base weaker. With all the colorless lands your very limited in your colored spells. With no U/W or U/B pain lands in standard you really stretch your mana base thin. Scrylands are not an option either since you don't want to be losing any tempo to your own lands.

 

Also, I added one Shrapnel blast to the main board, It ends the game quickly when you draw into it.