As I have not yet officially announced it here but now I am on this blog post, I have started collecting Nonbasic lands of the Black and Red colors. I have decided on doing this as sort of a personal collection due to the fact that I am a big Rakdos fan, given that the first deck that gained me my Pro point was Black-Red Vampires.

I began with buying a playset of Dragonskull Summit original art and followed that with Smoldering Marsh and Foreboding Ruins also in a playset of 4 copies. Next was the playset of Lavaclaw Reaches which was an ideal card during my Vampires in Zendikar Standard days and also when I played Jund back in Shards of Alara. I also got copies of the original Ice Age art of the pain land Sulfurous Springs which was quite pricey even for an old card. I was able to buy a few during my trip in Grand Prix Hong Kong though I did not commit to buying the expensive ones like Bloodstained Mire and Blackcleave Cliffs.

Thankfully I have found this website that features on the sort of an encyclopedia of the lands of Magic: the Gathering. This way, it will be easy for me to do a quick checklist of the cards that are already added and those that are pending to be bought given the extra cash in my budget.

As of this posting, I have just bought on eBay in a US store a playset of Rocky Tar Pit on its classic Mirage and new Duel Deck version. Hopefully, it will arrive as soon as possible.

You might want to help me achieve my Rakdos lands collections so hit me up on the comment box below and we will talk about it.

So here is another deck tech I came up with after a few discussion with the teammate with his Aetherborn Improvise deck for Standard. The game plan starts with regular aggro creatures to chip on opponents’ life total and it is then followed by a late game value card in the form of Underhanded Designs. The enchantment activates ‘Extort’, an Orzhov mechanic that triggers for each artifact you control that enters the battlefield and sources for those triggers are available most of the time. Scroungers, schematics, Fabricate and even Aethersphere Harvester etb are your best examples.

Here below is the first version of the deck:

4 Scrapheap Scrounger
4 Syndicate Trafficker
4 Weaponcraft Enthusiast
4 Chief ofthe Foundry
4 Sweatworks Brawler
2 Weldfast Engineer

3 Aethersphere Harvester
4 Servo Schematic
4 Underhanded Designs
4 Unlicensed Disintegration

4 Smoldering Marsh
4 Foreboding Ruins
9 Swamp
6 Mountain