Focusing Our Decks

The past couple of days we have been focused on, well, focusing our decks.  The stance I took with running a 4 color deck was, essentially, useless, as I didn't have a strict purpose.  Oh, sure, my deck could spit out slivers every turn, and launch some high hitters, but it could also stall and mill a bit.  Then again, I could also just keep a couple high cards in my hand and some destructive spells and hold off until the end.  Then AGAIN, I could have simply healed life until the end, and then broke out my high cards.  See?  I was unfocused, and although I thought having multiple strategies was good, it was unclear as to what I wanted to do and wouldn't hold up against any good Magic player.  I stripped my deck down to two colors, red and black, and started researching.
I began to catch on when I read the wonderful article by Chad Ellis over at tcgplayer.com.  Ellis illustrated this by using an illustration about southwest airlines.

"Another example is Southwest Airlines. When most airlines were struggling, Southwest grew rapidly and profitably through a unique strategic approach. They only used a single airline model, which reduced maintenance costs and also happened to be inexpensive. They only used second-tier airports. They set prices at extremely low levels. They offered no frills. They didn't use paper tickets. 

In short, Southwest didn't do a ton of things. Not doing them enabled them to cut costs, increase demand, have their planes spend less time on the ground and more time flying paying customers and, in aggregate, to make a lot of money. "
Essentially, I found my deck to be doing too much, and not enough of one thing efficiently.  I have since narrowed my deck down to ONLY spells that would deal damage to target player/creature, spells that would lower the att/def of target creature, and only creatures that were cheap (like, 1 or 2 mana) yet would build into a formidable army.  Sure, I can't counteract a lot of attacks, yet I will be able to end a game by turn 4 or 5 if I draw the right combination.  Which is hard not to draw, seeing as how my deck is, essentially, made up of the same kinds of cards.  Can't wait to update my decklist and show ya'll how its goin!

Thanks, Mark