I enjoy building Red decks in each Standard with a deck restriction of No Rares or Mythics. It's a nice change up to the good stuff decks, and has the added bonus of being quite budget friendly.
In Ixalan Standard there are a lot of decent 1-drops that fit this criteria. In fact, 2 of them have Menace which makes Consuming Fervor an attractive card to play with. With the extra low creature lineup that is hard to block, Fervor can give the deck an explosive start in the first couple of turns. Cartouche and Ahn-Crop keep the pressure on while the opponent scrambles for blockers. Bloodrage Brawler rounds out the lineup. It makes the cut because is a cheap hard hitter and the discard plays well with Flameblade. The rest of the deck is Burn spells.
The sideboard includes some extra haste creatures for control decks. Filigree Familiar for the aggro mirrors. Abrade for some utility. A couple extra Hungry Flames for against other creature decks. Destructive Tampering and Blazing Volley for against decks that flood the board with blockers. Other options are Hijack and Chandra's Defeat.
I was also going to suggest Trial. I think the Desert of the Fervent makes the deck worse. You don't want ETB tapped lands when you have so many 1 drops. I'd also suggest some Hijacks for the sideboard.
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4 Fire Shrine Keeper
4 Flameblade Adept
4 Rigging Runner
4 Bloodrage Brawler
4 Ahn-Crop Crasher
Spells:18
4 Cartouche of Zeal
4 Consuming Fervor
4 Shock
4 Lightning Strike
2 Hungry Flames
4 Desert of the Fervent
10 Mountain
4 Ramunap Ruins
4 Sunscorched Desert
4 Brazen Scourge
4 Filigree Familiar
1 Blazing Volley
3 Abrade
1 Destructive Tampering
2 Hungry Flames
In Ixalan Standard there are a lot of decent 1-drops that fit this criteria. In fact, 2 of them have Menace which makes Consuming Fervor an attractive card to play with. With the extra low creature lineup that is hard to block, Fervor can give the deck an explosive start in the first couple of turns. Cartouche and Ahn-Crop keep the pressure on while the opponent scrambles for blockers. Bloodrage Brawler rounds out the lineup. It makes the cut because is a cheap hard hitter and the discard plays well with Flameblade. The rest of the deck is Burn spells.
The sideboard includes some extra haste creatures for control decks. Filigree Familiar for the aggro mirrors. Abrade for some utility. A couple extra Hungry Flames for against other creature decks. Destructive Tampering and Blazing Volley for against decks that flood the board with blockers. Other options are Hijack and Chandra's Defeat.
Modern: R Skred -- WBG Melira Co -- URW Nahiri Control
Legacy: R Mono Red Burn -- UWB Stoneblade
Commander: R Krenko, Mob Boss -- WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon -- WUBRG Maze’s End
Other: R No Rares Red (Standard) -- URC Izzet Tron (Pauper)
Modern: R Skred -- WBG Melira Co -- URW Nahiri Control
Legacy: R Mono Red Burn -- UWB Stoneblade
Commander: R Krenko, Mob Boss -- WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon -- WUBRG Maze’s End
Other: R No Rares Red (Standard) -- URC Izzet Tron (Pauper)