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Pioneer Rakdos Sacrifice Sideboard Guide By Brittney
Quick intro
Today, we bring something different to the table. This time, we must express our gratitude to Brittey for generously sharing her list and sideboard guide. After she mistakenly thought the close-ish Pio RCQ she planned on playing this weekend was a day earlier than she believed, she realized this only a few minutes ago after tuning her list all day.
Here is the list she was planning to play, as well as the sideboard guide.
She has decided to make it available to the public totally free, and we asked her about creating a visual sideboard guide with it. Here it is!
The deck
$534/208.27 Tix
Maindeck (58)
| Creature [21] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4 Bloodtithe Harvester | $0.35 | |
| 4 Mayhem Devil | $0.79 | |
| 3 Cauldron Familiar | $1.49 | |
| 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker | $21.99 | |
| 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse | $79.99 | |
| 4 Unlucky Witness | $0.35 | |
| Artifact [4] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4 Witch's Oven | $1.49 | |
| Instant [8] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2 Fatal Push | $2.49 | |
| 2 Village Rites | $0.49 | |
| 4 Deadly Dispute | $1.49 | |
| Sorcery [2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 Kari Zev's Expertise | $0.79 | |
| 1 Eaten Alive | $0.35 | |
| Land [23] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4 Blightstep Pathway | // | $6.49 |
| 4 Blood Crypt | $17.99 | |
| 2 Den of the Bugbear | $6.49 | |
| 2 Haunted Ridge | $8.99 | |
| 2 Hive of the Eye Tyrant | $4.49 | |
| 1 Mountain | $0.01 | |
| 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance | $6.49 | |
| 1 Sulfurous Springs | $1.79 | |
| 2 Swamp | $0.01 | |
| 2 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire | $12.99 | |
| 1 Castle Locthwain | $4.99 | |
| 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | $39.99 | |
| Sideboard [15] | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4 Leyline of the Void | $3.49 | |
| 2 Noxious Grasp | $0.35 | |
| 4 Thoughtseize | $11.99 | |
| 2 Necromentia | $0.49 | |
| 1 Kari Zev's Expertise | $0.79 | |
| 2 Abrade | $0.35 | |
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Sideboard Guide
VS Mono Green
VS Rakdos Midrange
VS UR Phoenix
VS White
Changing the full 4 Falta Push into 2 Fatal Push + 1 Eaten Alive + 1 extra Village Rites made this matchup, and soldiers as well, a little worse. It might also make Red worse. Before, you were 60-40; now, maybe it's 55-45. I'm considering changing the 1 Eaten Alive for a push. It would mess up your Green SB numbers a bit.
VS UW Control
Your Thoughtseizes are looking for stuff like temporary lockdown, verdict, etc., not taking planeswalkers/counters unless you are specifically trying to resolve a spell that turn. Getting Cat/Oven going is very good; Oven unanswered blanks their wandering Emperors. Noxious Grasp kills their big walkers that you can't attack down. T1 Thoughtseize is rarely correct.
VS Greasefang
It's hard to determine how hard to mull for Leyline because they have 2xTear in their deck. I need to test this matchup more to determine which hands can be kept and which can't.
VS RG Vehicles
Oven is valuable (or waiting to play a creature if possible if you have a sac spell) because of stomp.
VS Enigmatic & keruga fires
Temporary lockdown is your nemesis. Do not play too much in the lockdown. Your role is not to be "faster" than them. Don't randomly sac your witnesses/creatures for more cards/value unless you're really missing mana. Blanking their removal spells with your rites/dispute is pos. tempo. your goal is to accumulate resources and ping them out. be wary of an omnath or a hasty kenrith. This is a tough matchup, could definitely use some more testing here.
VS Bant Spirits
Not having Rending Volleys has made this matchup a little harder.
VS Lotus Field
Claim can give your creatures haste so leaving in one is better than it looks when you're trying to race them.
VS Angels
VS Mono Blue Spirits
VS Rakdos Sacrifice (Mirror)
VS Bogles
VS Mono Red
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