Here is my Big Red decklist. This consistently gets me to 3-1 or 4-0 (some nights) at my FNM. Just added the Phoenix last week and it shined. Thoughts?
I disagree about Hungry being bad, probably not a four of though. Hellion can be hit or miss, but it should eat a blocker or get in for 8. 4 Kari Zev seems like a lot being legendary and all. With all the bomb 4 and 5 drops, i really like Wily Goblin for acceleration and chump blocking, stall and go big faster is good in this type of deck.
I disagree about Hungry being bad, probably not a four of though. Hellion can be hit or miss, but it should eat a blocker or get in for 8. 4 Kari Zev seems like a lot being legendary and all. With all the bomb 4 and 5 drops, i really like Wily Goblin for acceleration and chump blocking, stall and go big faster is good in this type of deck.
I agree on those points for both cards, they are ok at best, better stuff out there. Dire Fleet Daredevil seems great, you will be hard pressed to find a deck with nothing to grab so it should give you some sweet card advantage on a decent enough body. Lannery does a nice job of ramping and getting in extra damage.
4 Bomat Courier
4 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
4 Lathnu Hellion
4 Rekindling Phoenix
4 Glorybringer
Instants
4 Lightning Strike
4 Shock
4 Hungry Flames
4 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Lands
4 Sunscorched Desert
2 Scavenger Grounds
18 Mountain
3 Sweltering Suns
3 Hour of Devastation
4 Abrade
3 Cut/Ribbons
2 Aethersphere Harvester
Needs moar Delver.
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Hungry Flames is just not a particularly efficient removal spell for 3 mana and the extra 2 damage to the face doesn't really make up for it imho.
As removal Abrade, Cut // Ribbons and Bombard are better and as burn there are cards like Chandra's Pyrohelix or Open Fire/Trial of Zeal
(can be reusable with Cartouche of Zeal) would be better.
Lathnu Hellion would be somewhat reasonable with energy support (like Harnessed Lightning and maybe Aether Hub) but without it it is barely a glorified Ball Lightning without trample.
Potential replacement 3-drops can be:
Captain Lannery Storm, Pia Nalaar or Ahn-Crop Crasher.
I agree about 4x Kari Zev being a bit much, maybe splitting it 2/2 with Dire Fleet Daredevil can be an improvement.
Needs moar Delver.