Fire without fuel - landless first turn win.
Legacy* Aggro Budget Burn Mono-Red Red Deck Wins Theme/Gimmick
Creature (32)
Sorcery (16)
Instant (12)
Sideboard
Creature (4)
Instant (7)
Enchantment (4)
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This is another of my attempts at landless decks. Thus far it wins more often than it loses.
turn 1: Simian Spirit Guide into Monastery Swiftspear . Exile Volcanic Salvo with Blazing Shoal to give her +12 for a total of 14 attack. Cast Fury of the Horde exiling two red cards to attack again for 15.
That's 29 damage turn one. Not bad for no land.
The spirit of this deck
While I would like this deck to win, the beauty of the deck is in its friendly pricetag, its novelty, and the look on opponent's faces when you have just killed them WITH NO LAND.
Feel free to copy and modify as you like, but in this original I'm not interested in adding moxes, or mountains.
The above description is flashy, intended to get your attention, but the deck wins far more often by other means, after all, you can do less than 29 and still win. A godly hand might look like -
Turn 0: reveal Chancellor of the Forge for a hasty goblin.
Turn 1 Two Blazing Shoal exiling two CMC 10s. Or one Shoal and a Fury of the Horde Or maybe you Chancellor of the Forge into a goblin, Blazing Shoal exiling that chancellor, swing for eight, get another combat, take them down to four, and Cave-In for the rest. The deck is versatile.
This should work as well with a Kobold or Ornithopter
Turn 1: play a Crimson Kobold
Turn 2: +10 for the turn and then attack twice. Blockers can be dealt with via Pyrokinesis and an Ornithopter can fly over them. The fear in an opponent's eyes when they see an Ornithopter swinging in should be reason enough to play this deck alone.
The deck will regularly hit for 2-12 damage first or second turn and then slowly burn it's way from there.
Because of the need for red cards to exile, aggressively mulliganing to less than six usually doesn't do well. The deck settles down into an almost control pattern, with opponents not wanting to leave themselves open, and us burning their board or them as we get the chance.
The deck is strong against creature strategies, fairly immune to stax, and destroyed by tax effects. Also beware of "mill till you hit a land." that stuff is nasty.
Our backup plan is to get Greater Gargadon out as quickly as possible and bash face with him. This can happen a lot more quickly with Kobolds and Ornithopters. I usually keep a hand with a Gargadon, Stoke the Flames and Kobolds.
Sometimes, maybe 20% of the time the deck just whiffs. You get a whole hand of CMC 10s or a bunch of Monastery Swiftspear and no Simian Spirit Guide I'll occasionally mull down to five but remember every mulligan is reducing us by a "land."
Don't worry if you don't have the combo in the opening hand. The important thing is that you have a creature you can play and a diversity of other pieces.
After an opponent has seen what you can do, they play differently and it's to our advantage. Psych them out. Ask if they're leaving blockers whenever they attack. Ask if they have flyers. make them hold back.
In its hellish hand form its weakest to agro. Given time we'll get the pieces. Given time I can burn through their blockers. Given time they'll burn.
I haven't tested the sideboard as much as I'd like. I had one that was just land as a transformational strategy, but couldn't get it to work. Definitely looking for suggestions.
Edits:
Been testing replacing four Kobolds of Kher Keep with four Gitaxian Probe I haven't noticed any more consistency and lost a game because of the life loss in a red burn matchup, but I think I'm going to keep testing it for now.
Made a non budget version linked here
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| Date added | 10 years |
| Last updated | 3 years |
| Legality | This deck is Legacy legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 8 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 8 Rares 6 - 5 Uncommons 18 - 2 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 4.67 |
| Tokens | Elemental 3/1 R w/ Trample, haste, Goblin 1/1 R |
| Folders | Landless, legacy worthy decks, Ruin Life, Cool deck ideas, Deck Ideas, Cool decks, Red, Landless, Legacy Decks, Legacy ideas |
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