One of our new friends from Reddit played out this match. Thanks for the report! Here’s what he said:

So we played the darkblade vs necro match, I uploaded a video to youtube at https://youtu.be/ReS4vIjXZGo. Necro wins a very close 3-2, with the decisive turn simply being Darkblade not drawing a fifth land in game 5 to drop and equip SoFaF in the face of a swarm of aggro. Darkblade’s opening hands were as follows:

GAME 1 preordain plains darkslick shores jace the mind sculptor stoneforge mystic preordain

GAME 2 glacial creeping jace stoneforge darkslick jace duress

GAME 3 creeping go for the vampire dismember arid mesa squadron creeping

GAME 4 marsh flats batterskull stoneforge inquisition seachrome emeria angel swamp

GAME 5 sword of feast and famine duress stoneforge mystic emeria angel creeping tar pit go for the throat plains

It’s a very close but swingy matchup where necro has turn 1 plays that can jump way ahead, but has a hard time dealing with the Stoneforge package. I think I made a couple of small play errors, missing a Factory pump and misplaying a Contagion in game 4, and I tried several different sideboard plans, eventually settling on keeping Drain Life rather than the color-hate that mostly didn’t get anywhere useful. My roommate commented that her deck was running too many taplands, and the lack of Day of Judgment was very noticeable, as Necro is very much the aggro deck here. She also says she knows why they stopped printing random discard now.

Necro 3-2, in an essentially even matchup; probably loses to the more refined banning-era cawblade.