The Retired: Shrapnel

Like so many players, I fall in love with cards from time to time. One of them is Seismic Assault. What better thing to do once you have all your lands, than to pitch them into your opponent's face? And what better way to mitigate the 'drawback' to Necrologia than to pay a bunch of life, draw all the cards, and then discard down to hand size by getting rid of those pesky lands?

It all seemed like a great idea, in 1998. Once Odyssey block came out, adding cards that did damage via removing stuff from my graveyard just made sense! But Grim Lavamancer was expensive, so Organ Grinder came into help.

3 Manaforge Cinder
3 Mogg Fanatic
2 Grim Lavamancer
3 Organ Grinder

3 Seismic Assault

3 Dark Ritual
3 Incinerate
3 Necrologia
3 Scorching Lava
3 Terminate

3 Rakdos Carnarium
2 Rocky Tar Pit
4 Swamp
9 Mountain
2 Dragonskull Summit
4 Canyon Slough

4 Blightning
3 Soul Feast

There is just one problem: Another color does this better, now; green. A lot better. So I'm taking it apart, because redoing the whole thing just doesn't seem worth it. There's a R/G deck for Seismic Assault, maybe even a RGx deck, but there definitely isn't a RB deck worth the time.