MTG Salvation

Ill be posting any relevant content that I think will benefit the red mages here, as well as links to my twitch and channel fireball work. This thread will also function as an FAQ of sorts for newer red players. I'm not a deck doctor.

My Channel Fireball Profile

Articles

The Philosophy of Fire - by Mike Flores
The most important article on playing this sort of deck you will ever read. Read it. Read it again. This will help you make effective decisions in difficult positions.

Who's the Beatdown? - By Mike Flores
When are you the aggressor? When are you the control? Remember that "Missasignment of role = Game Loss"

Eight Core Principles of Who's the Beatdown - by Mike Flores
The follow up to the original classic, updated with modern examples.

The Art of Beatdown - by David Price
One of the Red Mage Founding Fathers gives detailed insight on how to beat face.

The Sullivan Library: Reach - by Adrian Sullivan
Explains the important of using your 'reach'.

Sullivan Library: Distinctions in Strategic Archetypes - By Adrian Sullivan
Ever wanted to know how good players understand when to change gears? Ever unsure what your role or path to victory is? Read this.

Sullivan Library: How to Make a Good Red Deck in Standard - By Adrian Sullivan
How do you build a good Red Deck anyway?

Sullivan Library: Tailoring a Mono Red Deck - by Adrian Sullivan
The devil is in the details.

All Your Victories Begin Here - by Alex Shearer
A great article about building the best mana base possible. Even for the mono-coloured decks, this is required reading. The article even has a handy spreadsheet!

Building Your Deck Around a Lynchpin - by Michael Jacob
2008 US National Champion (with Mono Red no less) Michael Jacob discusses the finer points of deck construction, focusing on building around a key card and its interactions.

Building Decks with Mana Sum Theory - by Travis Woo
Travis Woo explains how to best incorporate mana sinks into your game, both as part of deck design and as part of how you sequence your plays. A must read for any modern red mage.

Videos

SCG New Jersey 2011 Final - Patrick Sullivan vs Mike Eisenhauer

Watch the Red Mage in action. In particular, look how he uses his mana, conserves his spells and plays around countermagic.

SCG New Jersey 2011 SemiFinal - Patrick Sullivan vs AJ Sacher

Humble red cards > oppressive UW brokenness

Member Produced Content and Resources

Member Articles
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hypergeometric Distribution ~ Hamfactorial link

Hamfactorial breaks down and discusses the finer points of deck building, giving you the tools and knowledge to understand how the maths of tdeck building actually works. A must read

Twitch.tv Streams
Zemanjaski
Hamfactorial

Will be starting to stream again later this week. Will edit a weekly stream schedule into the first post. Tune in, if not for red decks winning then for music and humour.

Zemanjaski playing RW Burn through a Daily Event in preparation for Grand Prix Melbourne: http://www.channelfireball.com/videos/channel-zemanjaski-standard-rw-aggro/

Hope you find it useful.

Here's my article covering the current iteration of RW Burn that I will be playing at GP Melbourne this weekend. There's the decklist and sideboarding guide included, as well as some observations on deck construction and theory.

Enjoy!

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/playing-with-fire-boros-burn-for-grand-prix-melbourne/

Here is my article covering my 23rd place finish at Grand Prix Melbourne with Boros Burn: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/playing-with-fire-gp-melbourne-report-23rd-with-boros-burn/

The article includes observations about the deck, its place in the meta, and strategic play and sideboarding advice.

http://www.channelfireball.com/videos/channel-zemanjaski-standard-rw-burn/

CFB player Zemanjaski plays updated RW Burn through an 8-man. Will answer questions on the video or the deck in the cfb comments.

More RW Burn videos courtesy of yours truly: http://www.channelfireball.com/videos/channel-zemanjaski-standard-rw-burn-3/

CFB player Zemanjaski plays updated RW Burn through an Daily Event. Will answer questions on the video or the deck in the cfb comments.

http://www.channelfireball.com/videos/channel-zemanjaski-standard-rw-burn-4/

Follow along with red spellslinger Zemanjaski as he runs RW Burn through a Daily Event.

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/playing-with-fire-thinking-about-boros-burn-spike-questions-and-answers/

People has questions about Burn, I had answers.

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/playing-with-fire-boros-burn-updates-and-analysis/

Running through deck updates and strategy after winning another $1K.

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/playing-with-fire-journey-into-nyx-review/

Journey into Nyx Review and a preview of the upcoming Standard format.