But yea, long story short, deck is sweet, and if you want to have fun dropping t2 blood moons on people in Modern, this is probably one of the best ways to do it

Thought it went without saying, but Sprawl enchants basic forest 100% of the time.

Is there any way a version of this deck could want Unearth at all? It cycles when it’s dead, and recurring any of the threat creatures besides Hazoret for only 1 Mana seems pretty dope. Plus a black splash would also let you run cards like collective brutality over feed the clan for the burn matchup.

Double red is a tall order for a lot of decks, and I think these cards play slightly different roles. Even in Ponza I can see Tireless being better for certain matchups. But I agree that SP is probably great in that deck.

This deck keeps one-landers all the time. Fetch, Sprawl, Wrenn, replay the fetch, Bolt your guy, etc. But I’d say that in a deck with Looting, you don’t want to go too low on lands necessarily. You can always discard extras down the road.

Hex is cool and I actually tried it in this deck in place of one Spellskite for a time. But Wrenn was so much better that I moved to two copies pretty fast. Here, Hex was always just a 2/1; we have so much other stuff to do with our mana that I never even grew it, making it a bad fit.

But I know of some RUG Delver players who enjoy the card as a 3-of in the Mandrills-Scour-Shoal builds. They argue that having a turn-one play is very important, even if it’s just a two-power creature, and that Hex is a powerful topdeck. I’ve experimented with two-power threats in RUG before and have always been unimpressed (which led me to brew Counter-Cat some 4 years ago: http://quietspeculation.com/delver-teeth-introducing-counter-cat/ ). I’ll certainly retract my skepticism if I see it place somewhere, though!

tl;dr: not a great rate, and doesn’t seem to have a home, but may surprise us.

There is a very close relative, in modern too to boot : Figure of Destiny. Hexdrinker cost less mana overall for somewhat better abilities, but they work rather similarly.

I don’t predict him a big future in aggro decks, because there is almost alway something better to do with the mana, but who know ? And perhaps it will have an oddball use. Maybe a tron player will try it in sideboard or something to that extent.