Tectonic Crunch

Casual Mono-Red

ClockworkSwordfish

Sorcery (15)

• 4x Cleansing Wildfire
• 3x Gamble
• 4x Geomancer's Gambit
• 4x Sundering Eruption  ^Flip

Artifact (6)

• 2x Crucible of Worlds
• 3x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (11)

• 3x Bloodthirsty Adversary
• 4x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 4x Dragonkin Berserker

Enchantment (5)

• 4x Stranglehold
• 1x Territorial Dispute

Land (19)

• 3x Field of Ruin
• 3x Ghost Quarter
• 13x Mountain

Instant (4)

• 4x Lightning Bolt

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Sorcery (3)

• 1x Boom / Bust
• 1x Dire-Strain Rampage
• 1x From the Ashes

Creature (2)

• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Shivan Wumpus

Land (2)

• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Slagwoods Bridge

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Think land destruction has been neutered into helplessness? Feel like ponza is a thing of the past? It turns out mono-red can still pull it off with deadly regularity once you put a couple of its cards together.

The tech here lies in Geomancer's Gambit. It's a Stone Rain that lets your opponent replace whatever land you just blew up... but since that would just be card disadvantage for you, it also lets you draw a card. Okay, sounds fair. Now what happens if you had Stranglehold out? Whoops, your opponent isn't allowed to find a replacement - in essence you have a Stone Rain that cantrips! The traditional wisdom is that it costs two extra mana to tack drawing a card onto an existing effect, so you're getting quite the bargain. Still not good enough? Cleansing Wildfire does the same for a measly two mana. Yowza!

But why pay mana at all? Ghost Quarter turns into a cheap Strip Mine once Stranglehold prevents your opponent from fetching a replacement. Stranglehold only affects your opponents, however, and not you, meaning Field of Ruin costs a bit of mana but will replace itself while it puts your opponent down a land. Either of these pair spectacularly with Crucible of Worlds, of course, letting you pick off a land every turn.

Once your opponent is cut down to a trickle of mana, how to finish him off? Stranglehold has no better ally than Boldwyr Heavyweights, who end up being 4 mana for an 8/8 with Trample and zero drawback. Try handling that when you've only been able to field one- or two-drops all game!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.54
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R