Budget RDW

Standard Aggro BRG (Jund) Budget Mono-Red Red Deck Wins

halcrynox

Creature (27)

• 4x Ash Zealot
• 4x Burning-Tree Emissary
• 4x Chandra's Phoenix
• 3x Fanatic of Mogis
• 4x Firedrinker Satyr
• 4x Firefist Striker
• 4x Rakdos Cackler

Land (21)

• 21x Mountain

Artifact (1)

• 1x Hammer of Purphoros

Instant (11)

• 4x Lightning Strike
• 4x Magma Jet
• 3x Titan's Strength

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Sideboard

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Burning Earth

Artifact (3)

• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (3)

• 3x Skullcrack

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Act of Treason
• 3x Mizzium Mortars

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 4x Pyrewild Shaman
• 4x Rubblebelt Maaka

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Madcap Skills

Artifact (4)

• 4x Glaring Spotlight

Instant (8)

• 4x Street Spasm
• 4x Titan's Strength

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Seismic Stomp

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This is a comparatively cheap deck (money-wise) next to the RDW that most people are using (mostly from the missing boros reckoner playset). It has the regular one and two-drops (Rakdos Cackler and Firedrinker Satyr, Burning-Tree Emissary, Ash Zealot, and Firefist Striker), but not the three drops. I'm not competitive enough to spend $80 on a playset of Boros Reckoner - even though that might help, I've designed this deck on a budget. To get the most use out of Fanatic of Mogis' ETB effect though, I had to find other red creatures with two ([chandra's phoenix]]) and three (boros reckoner) devotion, so I originally settled with Mindsparker (a $1 rare) and Awaken the Ancient (a .40 cent rare). EDIT: I opted to spend the extra $20 or so for a chandra's phoenix playset though, the haste, flying, and card advantage was sorely missed. Awaken the ancient is more of a problem because it would be a 2-for-1 if they Doom Blade my mountain or something. Even though it costs 4 mana, it should probably be used when you have 5, otherwise he's just sitting there unprotected and tapped for a whole turn, waiting to be doom bladed. Despite it's problems, it's about 40 times cheaper than Boros Reckoner, but it's certainly not 40 times worse. Burning-Tree Emissary provides some acceleration - an ideal play would probably be turn 1 firedrinker, turn two burning-tree into firefist striker, turn three ash zealot. Magma Jet in here is good for the scry 2 in case you're mana flooded or mana screwed, or when you go into topdeck mode since red's choices for card draw at this time kinda sucks (e.g. Wild Guess). I'm not sure how good Hammer of Purphoros is in here, I was actually thinking maybe Glaring Spotlight for a game finisher swing-with-everything, or maybe Madcap Skills or Rubblebelt Maaka (probably just for the bloodrush ability. Any ideas?

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 12 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Enchantment Golem 3/3 C
Folders	Old Standard