Please welcome Shawn in his first article, a Mono Red budget deck for Modern.
Modern Budget Mono Red Haste
Creaturesx4 Kiln Fiendx2 Legion Loyalist x4 Monastery Swiftspear x4 Simian Spirit Guide Landx18 Mountain | Artifactsx2 Hammer of PurphorosOther Spellsx2 Intervention Pactx4 Gitaxian Probe x3 Assault Strobe x1 Faithless Looting x4 Gut Shot x4 Mutagenic Growth x4 Apostle's Blessing x2 Searing Blood x2 Manamorphose |
Sideboardx2 Tormod's Cyrptx2 Lightning Bolt x2 Pithing Needle x2 Searing Blood x3 Shatter x2 Young Pyromancer x2 Burning Earth |
How it Works
The deck is made to attack quickly and win fast. If you can play Monastery Swiftspear on turn one and get at least two or three spells played that turn, you can swing for maybe 8 on turn one with double strike for an exceptional play. Then you are putting your opponent on a one or two turn clock to either play quickly or concede because even just a single creature can be killed quickly with this deck. All of the Phyrexian mana spells in the deck are mainly to end the game quickly. They will simply be able to get your opponent down quicker all the while giving your Swiftspear +1/+1 each time you play one. Playing Mutagenic Growth twice will give +4 and Swiftspear will give itself +1/+1 for each is a big leap. This gives you 7/8 with only two spells. Give it double strike with Assault Strobe and Swiftspear becomes a 8/9 with haste and double strike on turn one. After that, you can just start slowly withering your opponent away with other spells.By turn three if your opponent has a way of stopping you, then it can get out of hand quickly by gaining massive amounts of power with just a couple spells and then like I said before, using double strike as a real killer. Without it, you are still swinging away at your opponent for massive amounts of damage. Kiln Fiend gets a +3/+0 bonus for each spell cast so if, for example, you cast a Growth, two Gitaxian Probes and a Lightning Bolt, then all together you added a whopping +12 to his power plus the Lightning Bolt. With that combo, you are dealing around 15 points of damage to your opponent, which in modern is about lethal considering all of the pain lands, fetch lands, and shock lands played in the format.
The Apostle's Blessing is mainly just for protection against an Abrupt Decay or Path to Exile. It's essentially just a good trick card when in a sticky situation. The Faithless Looting is just a cantrip to mainly help cycle through your deck to get certain cards or lands in your hand. Hammer of Purphoros is good only when you are in a long match and are not getting good draws or when you need a way to use those excessive lands you may draw. Legion Loyalist is just an extra haste creature that can help with the attack first hand in the beginning. When your opponent tries to expend their mana to kill him, you are ready with a Kiln Fiend or Swiftspear in hand to finish them off.
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