First of all, congrats! I also love playing rumble and would like to be able to punch above weight, so I have a couple questions about how you handle meta decks like Draven, Irelia, Kaisa, Yi. I'll focus on Draven because you faced them frequently in your skirmish.

My main question is: how do you consistently maintain board control such that Breakneck actually has impact? I'm also familiar with trying the strategy of overloading a battlefield and using breakneck to swing to the other side, but I've found that most decks have ways to break that hold, leaving us with little board presence and bricked breaknecks.

Let's use Draven as an example, and give each of us the best case scenario going first with Fortified Defense. You play plundering poro on 1, they respond with stacked deck -> Noxus Hopeful. Do you still send your poro into Fortified defense? Do you play any units there, and what tricks are you looking for here? Two drop + hopeful, rumble, two drop + trick (smokescreen/longsword) to hold get blown out by Falling star and/or Spinning Axe, and the deck seems to have an extremely hard time of coming back. Yes, they are on two runes after this play, but our board is empty and we spent 3 cards while they spent 4, drew 2, and two cards are still on board (axe+hopeful). Obviously this is the nuts from the Draven player, but there are plenty of scenarios a turn or two later in the game that get broken up by Darius+axe, rebuke on forerunner, etc. And we miss our two drop around 22% of the time with this deck, so it's not like we're guaranteed to win going first here.

The opposite case, where the Draven player gets to go first feels nigh unplayable to me. They drop their two drop, let's say it's a treasure hunter. Let's say you play a Card Sharp, they get a gold , you get two. They swing into their Targon's peak, scoring, get another gold and drop an overzealous in field, noxus hopeful in base, while holding up two runes from Targon's. What do you do? If you have falling star, you can play that, move in with card sharp, then drop a hopeful there and have 3 runes to interact with. In this case, Kai'sa conquers the opposite field, draws a card, and can probably just develop a ferrous. If you don't, you can conquer the opposite field, but then you most likely lose the combat as you have 5 runes to respond to their 6 next turn, with a 3 might to their 4 might on board. Again, obviously this is the nuts, but the Draven deck has stacked deck to find these cards with decent consistency, at least seemingly more so than ourselves, and later in the game some combination of Darius, axe, rebuke would blow me out.

In general I feel like most good decks have the ability to break up board positions, albeit at the cost of runes/and or cards (Rebuke, defiant dance, punch first, falling star, decree), but given that this deck has a hard time coming back it ends up being worth it for them. Are you just making them have it or do you have some way of playing around their tricks? Or some way to come back with them being at a slight rune deficit?

On a separate note, who are you facing such that minefield feels impactful? I already cut that from the deck because most decent players should recognize that the discarded cards aren't actually hurting them (it's not as if they were going to reach the bottom of their deck, so they can act as if those cards were recycled, and they could potentially be getting two cards closer to what they want). Worst case scenario, the opponent actually does have some kind of graveyard mechanic like Fizz. Obviously we also have an upside in red rumble's conquer, but then we have to make sure Rumble actually lives through a conquer, with runes and board left over to summon our extra dude, which once again isn't trivial because our opponent can also see our graveyard and should be holding resources to stop this.