Changes I made:
Maindeck:
-1 Rachet Bomb
-3 Island
+1 Synocpate
+3 Steam Vents

Sideboard:
-3 Fiendslayare Palladin
+1 Rachet Bomb
+2 Wear//Tear

One loss in the tournament I took from GR Planeswalkers – Rampager and then proceeded to split in the finals with the same deck, and this is the deck I didn’t like the matchup against more on that in the minute.

One draw from the tournament came against Maze End. Amazingly so, since after losing handily game one I managed to play turn one Mutavolt second game that started attacking on the second turn and put him down to zero turn before I would lose. Geme 3 went into time and ended a draw.

Wins included 2 Esper, 1 MonoB, 1 MonoU, 1 Boros, all straight 2-0 victories.

Ideas behind the changes: One Ratchet Bomb moved to the side as it seemed 2 might be enough – since the Hydra problem comes from the sideboard, the red splash is a questionable idea for the Tear part, to be able to catch a troublesome artifact sometimes (Pithing Needle or a weapon) while at the same time having 2 additional answers to Underworld Connections, and having the ability to destroy Detention Spheres in control matchups that might snag up a win condition. Never drew the card nor used it so I can’t say anything about the validity of that idea.

GR Planeswalkers – Rampager problem:
Turn 2 Domri, Turn 3 Xanagos, that’s the problem. While later, four pro white haste dragons to close the deal if you manage to get out of the first problem.

Maze End problem: You need a Needle or its almost an auto-loss.

Changes I would make in the future: In the main +1 Needle +2 Celestial Flare instead of the Bombs, move them to sideboard, 2 of them and add 1 Needle to the side.

Ratchet Bomb is great against Hydras, but can’t answer the dragon. Celestial Flare answers both, if you manage to wrath the board beforehand and that is usual since those are both usually post wrath plays. I don’t like it and it would necessitate more white sources in the deck but I think it might be a necessary evil.

Thanx for the great deck!

Fiendslayer Paladin costing 3 is a huge downside in my opinion. On 3 I would either really wanna be able to play a tapped land and react to an opposing spell or play a Detention Sphere on a Chandra’s Phoenix. Precinct Captain is something they’re pretty much forced to deal with if you put him down turn 2, and unless they have Shock they’re going to waste a lot of momentum doing so. The only guy the have that can sort of attack into it in the early turns is Ash Zealot, and if they do we’ll be able to attack back and produce perpetual chump blockers. That being said I don’t currently have them in my sideboard but mostly because Mono Red is already reasonably easy to deal with. The biggest concern is when they have an overweight of burn spells to creatures and you get stuck with a bunch of useless creature removal in hand.

Tablet of the Guilds is a bad card when you look at it. On the other hand though it adds “+ Gain 1.5 life” to all your spells which will help a lot incrementally crawling out of Skullcrack range.

But as I said, if Mono Red were a bigger thing online I would definitely go for the Captain. As it is now I’m just packing a pair of Jace MAs for the slow matches and matches where you need a quick wincondition because you can’t interact with theirs (e.g. Maze’s End which occasionally pops up).

I’ve had a lot of success with Fiendslayer. The fact that they can’t burn it to death is huge, as is the lifelink. Tablet of the Guilds doesn’t seem good to me. Precinct Captain is a good card, but wouldn’t you rather pay 1 more for it to be lifelink and untargetable by red decks?