Drafting Archetypes 189: Red Black in Duskmourn

This week #MTG Sam Black dives into Rakdos in #MTGDSK limited
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[@samuvasc]

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[@robocroakie2649]

The goat!!!!

[@mopanda81]

I suppose a potential pivot is a red aggresive draft that doesn't end up seeing boros but does see open black. I wonder if it's valuable to try and price into enabling delirium more like from commune with evil. Probably too far off the plan of reducing life.

[@coolcreep]

I think your reasoning on why RB should lean aggressive is missing something important, and you gloss over it when you say "final vengeance also lets you sacrifice enchantments, but mostly you need a creature". There is an entire suite of rooms that can work well as fodder for RB! The "creature or enchantment" thing is not just on final vengeance - it is on *every* sacrifice outlet in the set.
This is how you compete with blue decks playing an attrition game - you still play things like percussionist and rats, so you gum up the board early, but then your card advantage is things like Derelict Attic, Ticket Booth, Glassworks, etc. to go with your sacrifice theme.
This works well because these rooms can be sacrifice fodder (you've gotten at least a card's worth of value out of them before sacrificing them), but they are also high impact plays in the late game, because these rooms typically have an expensive side that gives you some form of late-game inevitability.
I'm not saying an aggressive RB beatdown deck can't work, but I've had no issues with a more controlling, attrition-based strategy, and out-valuing blue decks has not been a significant issue for me.