MTG Salvation

Hey everyone. I'm brand new to Commander and pretty new to MTG in general. I wanted to get started with the Commander format so I bought the Merciless Rage deck and while I like how it plays overall I feel there is room for improvement. I'm saving up for a $50 budget upgrade I found here: https://www.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/articles/commander-2019-50-budget-upgrades-merciless-rage/

In the meantime, however, I wanted to know if there was anything in my very limited collection that might serve as good replacements. I've uploaded images of my black and red collection which is all current cards so I understand if there's nothing in there that would really make a good replacement but I figured it couldn't hurt to check.

Thanks in advanced!

Merciless Rage Current Build:


Red Cards in Collection:

• 1 Act of Treason
  
• 1 Arena Trickster
  
• 2 Aspect of Manticore
  
• 1 Blood Aspirant
  
• 1 Careless Celebrant
  
• 2 Chandra's Embercat
  
• 1 Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
  
• 1 Clamor Shaman
  
• 1 Deathbellow War Cry
  
• 2 Dreamshaper Shaman
  
• 2 Dreamstalker Manticore
  
• 1 Electrify
  
• 1 Ember Hauler
  
• 1 Escape Velocity
  
• 2 Experimental Frenzy
  
• 1 Feral Maaka
  
• 1 Fiery Finish
  
• 1 Final Flare
  
• 1 Fire Elemental
  
• 2 Flummoxed Cyclops
  
• 1 Furious Rise
  
• 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  
• 1 Goblin Motivator
  
• 1 Goblin Smuggler
  
• 2 Grim Initiate
  
• 1 Hero of the Games
  
• 2 Heroes of the Revel
  
• 2 Hostile Minotaur
  
• 1 Impending Doom
  
• 5 Incendiary Oracle
  
• 2 Infuriate
  
• 4 Iroas's Blessing
  
• 1 Irreverent Revelers
  
• 3 Jaya's Greeting
  
• 2 Kargan Dragonrider
  
• 1 Lightning Strike
  
• 1 Mask of Immolation
  
• 18 Mountain
  
• 2 Nyxborn Brute
  
• 1 Omen of the Forge
  
• 2 Onakke Ogre
  
• 3 Oread of Mountain's Blaze
  
• 2 Portent of Betrayal
  
• 1 Radiating Lightning
  
• 1 Rubblebelt Boar
  
• 1 Samut's Sprint
  
• 2 Satyr's Cunning
  
• 1 Scampering Scorcher
  
• 2 Shivan Dragon
  
• 4 Shock
  
• 3 Skophos Warleader
  
• 1 Sparktongue Dragon
  
• 1 Stampede Rider
  
• 1 Tectonic Rift
  
• 1 The Akroan War
  
• 5 The Triumph of Anax
  
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
  
• 1 Tin Street Dodger
  
• 1 Torch Courier
  
• 1 Trumpet Blast
  
• 1 Underworld Rage-Hound
  
• 1 Volcanic Dragon
  
• 1 Wrap in Flames
  

Black Cards in Collection:

• 1 Agonizing Remorse
  
• 1 Agonizing Syphon
  
• 1 Aspect of Lamprey
  
• 1 Audacious Thief
  
• 2 Barony Vampire
  
• 2 Bartizan Bats
  
• 1 Bleeding Edge
  
• 1 Blight-Breath Catoblepas
  
• 1 Blood Burglar
  
• 1 Bogstomper
  
• 1 Burglar Rat
  
• 1 Cavalier of Night
  
• 1 Creeping Chill
  
• 1 Cry of the Carnarium
  
• 1 Dark Remedy
  
• 1 Dead Weight
  
• 1 Disentomb
  
• 2 Disfigure
  
• 1 Duress
  
• 2 Elspeth's Nightmare
  
• 1 Erebos's Intervention
  
• 1 Feral Abomination
  
• 1 Final Death
  
• 2 Funeral Rites
  
• 2 Gravebreaker Lamia
  
• 2 Gravedigger
  
• 2 Gravewaker
  
• 2 Grim Physician
  
• 1 Hateful Eidolon
  
• 1 Herald of the Dreadhorde
  
• 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  
• 2 Lazotep Behemoth
  
• 3 Lazotep Reaver
  
• 1 Minion's Return
  
• 2 Mire's Grasp
  
• 3 Murder
  
• 1 Noxious Groodion
  
• 1 Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
  
• 2 Omen of the Dead
  
• 1 Pharika's Libation
  
• 1 Plaguecrafter
  
• 1 Price of Betrayal
  
• 2 Scavenging Harpy
  
• 1 Skeleton Archer
  
• 2 Sorin's Thirst
  
• 3 Soulreaper of Mogis
  
• 1 Spark Harvest
  
• 36 Swamp
  
• 1 Underworld Charger
  
• 1 Veiled Shade
  
• 1 Venomous Hierophant
  
• 3 Walking Corpse
  
• 2 Woe Strider
  
• 1 Zombie Army
  

Which commander are you playing? The deck appears to have a good base, but if your not playing Anje, you may need to swap out more cards because the madness cards loose their flair without Anje.

I didn't look through all the cards, but good additions might include:

• Cavalier of Night
  
• Plaguecrafter
  
• Murder
  
• Funeral Rites
  
• Gravebreaker Lamia
  
• Gravedigger
  
• Oread of Mountain's Blaze
  
• Thrill of Possibility
  
• Woe Strider

Grab a soul-guide lantern, Bojuka Bog, maybe a withered wretch, a few cheap artifact ramp like mind stone, wayfarer's bauble, and maybe expedition map to tutor the bojuka bog and others. Maybe another land finding creature like Skittering surveyor or Pilgrim's eye. Eew, map is $3. Maybe get a Rakdos Signet for $1.

Pre-con decks can be slow. I can't say for sure since I haven't played one in years, though having a good ramp package and some draw spells are important no mater what else is in the deck, and some cheap 2 cmc rocks will be a minimal investment that will grow with the deck. Don't forget some card draw! Magus of the Wheel should be really good in that.deck.

I'd always upgrade lands first, because if you one day grew tired of this deck, at least you can use the lands for other decks.