Smokey's Nightmare

Commander / EDH Burn Mono-Red Stax

freddiefrick

Ramp (15)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strike it Rich
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Grabby Giant
• 1x Irencrag Feat
• 1x Koth of the Hammer
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Caged Sun

Card advantage (9)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Reckless Impulse
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Decaying Time Loop
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Virtue of Courage

Cheap burn (11)

• 1x Chain Lightning
• 1x Flame Slash
• 1x Lightning Axe
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Abrade
• 1x Cathartic Pyre
• 1x Combust
• 1x Lava Coil
• 1x Volcanic Spite
• 1x Demon Bolt
• 1x Nahiri's Warcrafting

Game-ending burn (11)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Burn from Within
• 1x Fear, Fire, Foes!
• 1x Kaervek's Torch
• 1x Lava Burst
• 1x Purphoros's Intervention
• 1x Stonesplitter Bolt
• 1x Torch Breath
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Shivan Meteor

Commander (1)

Protection (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Leyline of Punishment

Land (43)

• 41x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x War Room

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Maybeboard

Stax (29)

• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Immolation Shaman
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Roiling Vortex
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Citadel of Pain
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Spellshock
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Stoneshaker Shaman
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Widespread Panic
• 1x AEther Flash
• 1x Burning Earth
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Ruination
• 2x Smokestack
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Burning Sands
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Ward of Bones

Burn targets (7)

• 1x Mogg Maniac
• 1x Spiteful Sliver
• 1x War Elemental
• 1x Donna Noble
• 1x Ill-Tempered Loner  ^Flip
• 1x Brash Taunter
• 1x Stuffy Doll

Protection (5)

• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Big Burn (2)

• 1x Light Up the Night
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip

Multipliers (2)

• 1x Arcane Bombardment
• 1x City on Fire

Small Burn (7)

• 1x Skewer the Critics
• 1x Skred
• 1x Boulder Salvo
• 1x Burning Hands
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Obliterating Bolt
• 1x Devour in Flames

Ramp (4)

• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Runaway Steam-Kin
• 1x Seething Song

Big Mana (2)

• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Urabrask  ^Flip

Adders (1)

• 1x Toralf, God of Fury  ^Flip

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Burn everything to the ground with Imodane, the Pyrohammer!

This is a work-in-progress. The protection package is massive because the deck is so commander-dependent.

Our goal is to use red's stax pieces to SPEED UP the game by punishing people for playing the game, then slam Imodane when we can protect her and unload for big damage.

Due to red's lack of good ramp or value or long game in general, the stax pieces that add mana taxes aren't useful to us because they're not asymmetrical -- we don't benefit from slowing the game down. After I removed the fast mana and accepted this wasn't going to be a cedh list, I also deleted the stax pieces that said "can't" (e.g. Ward of Bones, Blood Moon) because that felt like too much for casual tables…but I tend to play at higher power tables, so maybe those should go back in.

It's important to note that doublers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus are actually quadruplers here -- they double damage first from a spell that targets a creature, then double that damage again when Imodane flings it at opponents.

It can win on turn 4 with the right start by burning out everyone with Imodane, but is more likely to win around turn 7-8 which I think is good for a high power EDH deck.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Elemental */1 R, Emblem Koth of the Hammer, Foretell, On an Adventure, Treasure