I challenged myself to build a non-green deck, so I decided on a mono red punishement/burn deck with my favorite time bomb, Ashling, the Pilgrim. I want blow up Ashling and with damage-doubling effects on the board, or just burn stuff for fun.
Journey into Nyx considerations: Curse of Bloodletting will become Dictate of the Twin Gods. Flash double damage is hilarious. I'd have to play it wisely though. Hellkite Igniter will be Spawn of Thraxes - a fireball with a body is perfect. I have plenty of Mountains and there's a chance to double the damage, too.
I made a big update after two weeks of testing and advice from several players. The deck feels pretty focused now and I really enjoy playing it - blowing up Ashling is super fun. If left unchecked in the early game, she can do lethal commander damage. She has earned the respect of my group, and they have told me it a fun deck to play against as well.
I've heard it said by other Ashling players that her ability to suicide is important. I believe that it's as an answer to tuck effects. This does make sense to me in light of red's general lack of tutoring.
And if you love the cheaper explosions idea: Heartstone
Nvm, you're already running it.
Planar Portal is another tutoring option, albeit a mana-hungry one. Furnace of Rath is another damage doubler. You mentioned it was a sub-theme of the deck.
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"If violence isn't solving it, you're obviously not using enough!"
-Me
A kid at my local gameshop wanted to break a twenty.
"You got 2 tens?" he asked me.
"No, but I probably got 3 fives." I replied.
"Perfect!"
"You might want to check your math there."
theres a preview card from journey to nyx called dictate of the twin gods, which doubles damage as well for 5 mana and has flash, so you get first use from it.
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1 Ashling the Pilgrim
Creatures
1 Burnished Hart
1 Flamekin Harbinger
1 Hellkite Igniter
1 Hellkite Tyrant
1 Inferno Titan
1 Knollspine Dragon
1 Magma Phoenix
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Stigma Lasher
1 Suffy Doll
Artifacts
1 Akroma's Memorial
1 Angelheart Vial
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Brittle Effigy
1 Caged Sun
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Expedition Map
1 Eye of Doom
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Heartstone
1 Journeyer's Kite
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Ring of Three Wishes
1 Scythe of the Wretched
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Staff of Nin
1 Strata Scythe
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sword of Kaldra
1 Sword of War and Peace
1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
1 Torpor Orb
1 Vedalken Orrery
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Chaos Warp
1 Comet Storm
1 From the Ashes
1 Into the Core
1 Molten Disaster
1 Molten Psyche
1 Reforge the Soul
1 Reverberate
1 Trash for Treasure
1 Vandalblast
1 Wild Ricochet
Enchantments
1 Burning Earth
1 Curse of Bloodletting
1 Gratuitous Violence
1 Pyrohemia
1 Repercussion
1 Smoke
1 Stranglehold
1 War's Toll
39 Mountains
1 Buried Ruin
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Thespian Stage
1 Valakut, the molten pinnacle
Journey into Nyx considerations:
Curse of Bloodletting will become Dictate of the Twin Gods. Flash double damage is hilarious. I'd have to play it wisely though.
Hellkite Igniter will be Spawn of Thraxes - a fireball with a body is perfect. I have plenty of Mountains and there's a chance to double the damage, too.
However, if you like the idea of her surviving her tantrums:
Sword of Fire and Ice
Magebane Armor
And if you love the cheaper explosions idea:Heartstone
Nvm, you're already running it.
Planar Portal is another tutoring option, albeit a mana-hungry one.
Furnace of Rath is another damage doubler. You mentioned it was a sub-theme of the deck.
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-Elliot Carver, Tomorrow Never Dies
"If violence isn't solving it, you're obviously not using enough!"
-Me
A kid at my local gameshop wanted to break a twenty.
"You got 2 tens?" he asked me.
"No, but I probably got 3 fives." I replied.
"Perfect!"
"You might want to check your math there."
also maybe some land ramp evolving wilds
mountain valley or rocky tar pit
maybe thawing glaciers has synergy with valakut
mana cache
mana flare
manabarbs burning earch for all lands
power surge you shouldnt have any untapped lands anyway so it only hurts slower decks plus you shoudn't mind tapping out
theres a preview card from journey to nyx called dictate of the twin gods, which doubles damage as well for 5 mana and has flash, so you get first use from it.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation