Stormwing doesn't get the cut because it's costed too highly.
Went 2-2 last FNM. i never had the chance to playtest and tweak before FNM, so i think that's a fair result.
Round 1 vs Mardu - Loss. i was still getting the feel of the deck. Mardu's unforgiving to misplays, and the pilot's a good player.
Round 2 vs R/B Aristocrats - Win. interesting deck, with token generators to make full use of
Nantuko Husk's ability. first game i just curved well enough that i was clearly ahead, game 2 i used
Transgress the Mind to make him discard a
Nantuko Husk in hand, and i used various removals on what relevant threats he put on the table.
Round 3 vs Abzan - Win. ok, Abzan's the match i'm worried about. game 1 i lost, but i removed 3x Zurgo and 3x
Wild Slash and replaced them with more efficient removal and discarders and that proved good enough to win the game. the pilot's skilled so i think that's a big win for the deck.
Round 4 vs Abzan - Loss. i wasn't able to draw the necessary hand disruption spells and removals so i guess that's just bad luck for me, otherwise i could have won over a slow Abzan deck with Hangarback Walkers.
moving forward, i think i'll have to reduce the number of
Polluted Delta to 2, replace with 1
Smoldering Marsh and a
Mountain, because there were times when i had
Polluted Delta but nothing else to fetch in the deck.
surprisingly, nearly all the Dark Jeskai decks vanished last FNM, so some slots in the sideboard were kind of wasted. the meta is once more Abzan dominant. maybe the best changes to the deck would be to the sideboard. since their threats are quite nasty and hard to remove when resolved, maybe a few more hand disruption spells would be nice. definitely upping the number of
Transgress the Mind and
Despise.
Ire Shaman performed well. as expected, it's something of a really annoying threat that goes through singleton blockers, so i didn't have to expend a lot of removal.
Forerunner of Slaughter also strained the opponent's removals, since it can't get hit with
Ultimate Price and
Surge of Righteousness. it also trades with leveled up
Warden of the First Tree and doesn't die to 1/1
Hangarback Walker and Thopter Tokens.
worst performer?
Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury. too steep a casting cost, and by the time i had the mana, the opponent is ready with removal. so he's little more than Dragonic Roar enabler. already thinking of replacing it, but with what? maybe 2x Sarkhan, the Dragon Speaker? at least it also has haste, can be used as a removal for smaller creatures, evades
Ojutai's Command, and indestructible. downside is that while in hand, it cannot be a
Draconic Roar enabler.