April 2nd - Standard Kibler's UB Poison

Remember, these aren't just decks that we've been playing; they're decks that spark some thought.

I love metagame decks.

They're never the best deck and they're very far from being the most abstractly powerful deck in the room; but they shake up the metagame.  If you remember Owling Mine, the deck that revolved around Ebony Owl Netsuke from Kamigawa-Ravnica Standard, you'll remember that it couldn't beat a Kird Ape, but if you were playing 4's 5's and 6's like most people actually were - the deck got the job done.

But now our metagame revolves around some Hawks:

Brian Kibler's UB Infect | The Rusty Machete

10 Creatures:  
4 Necropede
4 Phyrexian Crusader
2 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

24 Spells:  
4 Contagion Clasp
4 Tumble Magnet
1 Deprive
1 Into the Roil
4 Mana Leak
2 Jace Beleren
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Preordain

26 Lands:  
4 Island
6 Swamp
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Inkmoth Nexus

14 Sideboard:  
3 Phyrexian Vatmother
3 Disfigure
2 Doom Blade
2 Flashfreeze
1 Go for the Throat
1 Jace Beleren
2 Duress

Phyrexian Crusader.  Decks that have White and or Red for removal are basically cold to this guy.  Jace Beleren preemptively kills your opponent's Jace, but you can kill opposing Jaces with your 8 manlands anyway.

Contagion Clasp?  Tumble Magnet?  If you had told me that these were top notch Standard cards when they came out, I'd say you were crazy.  But holding off creatures with equipment, killing Plated Geopedes and Steppe Lynxes, buying just enough time to find a Phyrexian Crusader to get through teams of Hawks and Mystics - that's really appealing in this deck.

But that doesn't even encompass the best individual point of playing this deck.  After your opponent takes the first point of poison in each game, clearly very far away from finishing them off; you inform them:

The first cut is the deepest.