Dies to Removal

Is this deck a slightly better call for the environment than Rw Devotion? I've been playing Rw devotion a while with great results but I've enjoyed watching MDU's latest videos.

LP, or any other experienced player on here, Love the Eric Smith list and am playing with some small variations for my meta. Are there times you have tried to replace the weirds with another card? I know they are cheap devotion additions and are good against some removal like AotG but is that even s...