Decks/UR riddle insult

79.69.106.95 11:05, April 13, 2018 (UTC) Mid-range blue red deck which seems to beat most decks except mono-red.

The key card is Riddleform - there aren’t a great deal of commonly played, cheap, instant speed answers (outside of Lightning Strike) that can deal with a 3/3 flyer. I would keep literally any hand that has Riddleform, the mana to play it and at least one other non-land. Double Riddleform is the dream, as the second allows the first to attack while also getting down another tough to deal with threat for two mana.

I’m not entirely convinced by Warkite Marauder yet, but it has fun interactions with the gods and Adanto vanguard (removing indestructible / returns to hand allowing you to burn them away) and channeler initiate (dies to the -1-1 counters) when it gets to attack.

I don’t like Cryptic Serpent as all of our threats have flying, and it would make their ground blockers relevant.

Siren Stormtamer can counter Settle the Wreckage, and it’s good against higher casting cost removal (Cast Out, Ixalan’s Binding, Vraska’s Contempt).

I play Opt main phase before combat more than you’d expect, mostly to power up Riddleform.

Three mana is a lot to play Enigma Drake, but if you can get it through counter magic then it can easily end the game in one turn with Insult pre combat and then Injury post combat. You can even target your own Drake with Injury if they are down to 4 or less life and have no creatures. I’ve not tried Fling but it seems like it would be soft to counterspells.

We lose to Glorybringer a lot, but on the plus side beat Scarab God most of the time. I’m tempted to try a Glorybringer of my own but I’ve not done it yet. Maybe as a one of replacing Abrade?

I’d love to have access to Shock, but I don’t like Magma Spray as it can’t go to face. That’s also the reason we only have one Abrade (and I’m not 100% sure there are enough artifacts played to make it worth including as a one-of).

Nothing in the deck dies to Fiery Cannonade, but it’s a dead card enough of the time that we only want one copy.

A better red/blue dual land (like the one in Dominaria) would be great.