more on mercs and burn

[Riva Iron-Grip]

alright guys, i need lots of suggestions, and comments on these decks. here is my merc deck
LANDS
20 swamps
CREATURES
2 cateran enforcers
1 cateran overlord
3 misshapen fiends
4 rampart crawlers
2 death charmers
3 agents of shauku
3 phyrexian prowlers
2 cateran brutes
SPELLS
3 cateran summons
4 corrupts
4 dark rituals
4 expunge
2 diabolic servitudes
4 vicious hungers

here is my red deck
LANDS
20 mountains
CREATURES
2 raging goblins
2 viashino sandscouts
4 defenders of chaos
2 kyren snipers
2 mogg catchers
4 goblin patrols
4 goblin raiders
SPELLS
2 kyren negotiations
2 scents of cinders
4 flame rifts
4 parch
1 landslide
4 seal of fires
SIDEBOARD
4 mogg fanatics

 

[Hawaiian mage]

You play these kind of decks cuasually? Is this the only type ofdeck you will ever play? You keep telling everybody to help your deck but your not listening to what they'er saying any way. Move Parch to Sidboard and put some better stuff in. Only 1 in 5 times should play against blue, and even then, how oftan do you need to deal FOUR damage to a BLUE creature when you should have already won in FIVE TURNS? Put Pach i the sideboard if you need it that much, but it's not good main deck material.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I don't know if its possible to build a competative T2
Merc deck but here's an idea very similiar to yours. This
version may not be fast enough.

Caveman

Merc's.dec
4 Cateran Persuader
2 Cateran Brute
2 Molting Harpy
2 Rathi Assassin
2 Rampart Crawler
2 Phyrexian Driver
2 Rathi Intimidator
1 Bog Glider
1 Pit Raptor
1 Rathi Fiend
1 Rebel Informer
1 Agent of Shauku
1 Cateran Enforcer

4 Duress
4 Dark Ritual
3 Vampiric Tutor(w/tutors I think "one of" is ok)opinion
1 Stupor
1 Corrupt
1 Vendetta
1 Snuff Out
1 Dark Triumph
1 Cateran Summons

17 Swamp
3 Gaea's Cradle
1 Dust Bowl

possible sideboard
3 Engineered Plague
2 Perish
2 Rapid Decay
2 Contamination
1 Persecute
1 Eradicate
1 Powder Keg
1 Thran Lens
1 Tranquility
1 Thran Foundry

...or maybe this crazy version.
deck two
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Saber Ants
2 Cateran Brute
2 Molting Harpy
2 Rathi Assassin
2 Rampart Crawler
2 Cateran Enforcer
2 Phyrexian Driver
1 Bog Glider
1 Rathi Fiend
1 Groundskeeper
1 Rebel Informer
1 Agent of Shauku
1 Uktabi Orangutan

4 Duress
4 Spidersilk Armor
3 Vampiric Tutor
2 Snuff Out
1 Stupor
1 Conspiracy
1 Cateran Summons
1 Forgotten Harvest

10 Swamp
7 Forest
3 Gaea's Cradle
1 Dust Bowl

possible sideboard
3 Engineered Plague
2 Perish
2 Rapid Decay
2 Contamination
1 Eradicate
1 Persecute
1 Powder Keg
1 Thran Lens
1 Thran Foundry
1 Tranquil Grove

 

[Riva Iron-Grip]

hey look hawaiin mage, i have been listening to people. but hey are not helping me. and i'll put the parches on sideboard, and maybe add 4...shocks? that sound good, or arc lightnings? well tell me what you think

 

[Riva Iron-Grip]

well i refined my red deck. here is what it looks like now, i'm going to take the kyren negotiations and but in like 2 more raging goblins or 2 goblin buggys.
LANDS
20 mountains
CREATURES
4 keldon champs
4 defenders of chaos
4 goblin patrol
4 goblin raiders
2 mogg catcher
2 viashino sandscouts
2 kyren snipers
2 raging goblins
SPELLS
4 incinerates
2 scent of cinders
1 landslide
4 seal of fires
3 flame rifts
2 kyren negotiations

well what do you guys think. i played with it yesterday alot of times with 3 other people, and it did relatively good. it came down to me and herald of valdemar(garrett). when my brothers got killed early. my brother eric is always the one out first if he doesn't forfeit. then my bro alex who is only 9 and plays pokemon played with us and he was out next. then it was me and garrett. at the starting of the game it went like this
GARRETT:1 mana, lightning bolt
ME: 1 mana, seal of fire
GARRETT: 2 mana, kindle
ME: 2 mana incinerate
then it went like that till i got my creatures in play and kicked his butt bad.

 

[Mikeymike]

If you're running extended (incinerates aren't T2 legal) take out the 2x Snipers, 2x Moggcatchers and maybe the 4x Defenders (is white that common in your group to main deck them?) and Goblin Raiders.

Put in more efficient creatures like Mogg Fanatics, Jackal Pups, Ball Lightning (If you have any), and Mogg Flunkies

I would probably cut the 2x Scents and 2x Kyrens for 4x Kindles too.