Discard-based MBC?
.So I think that I’ve made a mistake in trying to straddle two different kinds of control, the tempo-control of the Standard B/R RatCloud deck and a more traditional card-advantage-based control approach forced on me by the absence of both Stone Rain and Ravenous Rats in the MD5 environment. That being the case, I need to find a deck that is focused and abled to exploit the current metagame.
The typical Black Control deck approach might actually provide a number of answers here, if I don’t get too caught up in trying to make Death Cloud work as the be-all and end-all.
22 Swamp 4 Wayfarer's Bauble 26 4 Chittering Rats 4 Solemn Simulacrum 2 Greater Harvester 36 4 Consume Spirit 4 Wrench Mind 4 Fill with Fright 4 Night's Whisper 4 Devour in Shadow 2 Echoing Decay 2 Barter in Blood 60 SB 4 Emissary of Despair 4 Shattered Dreams 4 Damping Matrix 3 Terror
Obviously, the deck is much, much weaker against Affinity here. Also, I begin to wonder if Promise of Power should come into it at all. But I don’t know where I’d put that, and it is a little risky against Big Red. I don’t think the deck can support both Promise of Power and Night’s Whisper.