Mono-Red Brainwashing

by HydreigonMuppetMaster on 16 November 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Instants (2)

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Deck Description

So I went to a Standard Tournament last Friday (my record was 2-2 and then dropped so didn't do that good...) and then realized that people win with big creatures (say, Boros Reckoner, Blood Baron of Vizkopa, Desecration Demon, tokens from Advent of the Wurm, Alms Beast, you name it.) So I tried to apply this idea with the G/W colors I had with red to try a certain deck out. That didn't go out well, but then I tried it on mtgdeckbuilder.net with just using red and it works out very nicely!

So this deck is a Mono-red aggro with a catch to it: Taking your opponent's creatures and using them as your own, which is great against players with Desecration Demon. I'll explain the rest in the "How to Play" Section.

Also I should probably note that without the SB, this deck is only around $70 so it shouldn't be that hard to get the deck.

You may now playtest this deck at www.mtgdeckbuilder.net:

http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net/Decks/EditDeck/987852

How to Play

So this is basically a Mono-red aggro deck as I have said before. The change to it is as for "removal", I added 4 copies of Act of Treasons, Traitorous Instincts, and Portent of Betryals to simply take the huge creature in my way of destroying the opponent and then using them as my own against my opponent.

There are some combos that you can do with this deck. The temples can be played first and get the scry off and then on turn 2, Burning-tree Emissary can play a Firefist Striker, any 1-drop in the deck, Lightning Strike / Magma Jet, or another Burning-tree Emissary and play off that one. On turn 3, your opponent probably played a creature by now, whenever it's Omenspeaker, Boros Reckoner (if they went first), or really any strong creature that they played. So you can take that strong creature and then make the opponent suffer a lot of damage. On turn 4, you can play of Traitorous Instincts / Portent of Betrayals and then screw people in the ass with them, From that point on, it's aggro all the way through.

But wait, what if the opponent is playing a Control deck? What if they don't have any creatures or very few creatures therefore making my spells usless? Easy, change the deck into a Mono-red Devotion deck, and that's exactly what the sideboard does. By taking out the Acts, Instincts, and Portents, you can throw in Mono-red cards such as Boros Reckoner (yes, that's side boarded, deal with it), Fanatic of Mogis, and Stormbreath Dragon or Chandra's Phoenix. That way, the deck can easily deal with Control without having useless cards in the hand.

So that's my next deck, comments / suggestions always appreciated! :)

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Mono Red
  • Aggro
  • Tournament

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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