Some things to remember:

– To make the right mana, look at the fetches in hand. Say you have a Catacombs, a Sprawl, a Windswept Heath, and a Foothills. You crack the Foothills right away for Forest and put Sprawl on it, then name black (if you didn’t have Heath in hand, you might name white). Next turn you can fetch a shock and play Blood Moon, and then you just have to find a white source for Rhino (the only card in the deck that requires white mana). With Birds instead of Sprawl, everything gets much easier, since you can fetch a Swamp or Plains on turn 2 and play Moon with red from the Birds. Next turn, you can play Rhino.
– Against some decks, i.e. ones with Path and no basic white source, it’s imperative to slam the Moon before committing threats, even if they’re pressuring you. There’s no point in playing a Goyf that will just get removed and then eating more damage and watching your opponent increase his board with something like Smiter that you could have prevented.
– Save in hand any mana sources beyond 4 unless you’re playing around Leak (and have a good reason to). Same with Moons. That way, Looting draws you four cards when you get to it, and generally finds you either a handful of threats or more Lootings or both.

GL!

Fair enough. Usually I take the time to sleeve up your creations and test them for a bit before I comment, but this time I didn’t have the chance to. I’ll try out Abzan Moon and see if it runs smoother than it looks.

I tried Choke in the initial “I’ll-start-with-this” sideboard, and quickly cut it because it didn’t address any specific problems this deck had. That’s what sideboard cards are supposed to do. There are no shoe-ins for a specific color combination (i.e. GR decks must run Choke). Huntmaster beats the white decks in my experience so I never needed Flashfires. Assuming you’re referring to Soul Sisters, I also don’t think I’d want that effect in that matchup, especially not for four mana. Their curve is low enough that they can recover easily, not to mention I’d lose my own Plains.

If you’re struggling to beat decks like mono-white control with this deck, then yes, play Flashfires. But I’m not having that problem.

Well, in testing, the Siege Rhino deck was very good. So good that I played it all summer and won something like 10 boxes of Khans with it at side events! The Rabblemaster deck needs work. It can’t consistently beat a wide variety of decks. I usually appreciate your comments, too, but for this one it seems like you just focused on how the list “looks” and not at all on how it actually plays. Did you test it at all? The mana in Abzan Moon is phenomenal. I hardly even take any damage from my lands. How is it “too greedy” if I can consistently play Moon into Rhino without stumbling? To me, “greedy” means unreasonable.

Also, what is your view on Flashfires in the sideboard? I find mono white decks a pain and this helps.

The Chalice/Rabblemaster based deck, on the other hand, looks a lot more promising. I feel like it could stand to have a few more basic lands (because 14 fetches is going to negate a lot of the goodwill that Chalice of the Void gets for you against aggro), but at least there I understand what you were going for there.

Six Blood Moons, not four 😉

That’s okay, I know it looks really bizarre. I’ve had a lot of success with it. But if you can’t get past the paper, don’t sleeve it up!

On the Ritual deck: I considered Demigod, but decided he might be too clunky. Would really like a mid-game ritual sink though. I’m leaning towards Empty the Warrens.

The rabble deck – the 4 rituals won’t help you cast chalice, is it really worth playing 6 cards that are pretty much completely dead in any situation other than turn 2 blood moon? The card disadvantage of the spirit guides seems ok because drawing one can enable either t1 chalice or t2 moon, you only have 4 so shouldn’t draw too many multiples, and finally he’s a 2/2 beater or chump blocker as a topdeck. The rituals do like 1/4 of the same work…

There were “all in red” decks back in the day with seething song to power out turn 2 demigod of revenge and whatnot, but I don’t see this as doing anything that crazy with stacked rituals since your 4 drops all need another colour :/