I think it boils downs to worse dualland choices vs option to replace Bolt with Path and the access to Blessed Alliance out of the board vs better answers to wide aggro like affinity with Pyroclasm and Grudge out of the board . RiP is harder to cast than Relic , worse against Grixis and other grindy decks like that since it shutoffs Wurmcoil or rather , allows them to 1 for 1 it and World Breaker . You rather have access to Relic for 11 generic mana a higher % of the time , than have RiP on the board then you can find the mana for it . To finish , the second RiP it dead while an additional Relic can be cashed in unless you ' re stirring down on a Stony Silence . <| sep |> It ' s hard to unseat a sitting president . And the democrats have a hell of a lot of work to do . There might not be enough time .