Dies to Removal

Mardu gives you access to Boros Charm in the side. I found it useful in some red midrangey decks I was tinkering with.

I'm on Dust of Dreams right now. :D Here is my current Skred, which incorporates some of the ideas I mentioned earlier. It aims to play a far more controlling game. [DECK] Lands 2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All 20 Snow-Covered Mountain Removal 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Skred 4 Ang...

I'm enjoying [card]Tezzeret's Gambit[/card]. More gas and Koth pushed to his ultimate. Also synergizes with Chandra, Pyromaster. I've also scrapped Scrying Sheets for Valakut and Boseiju, Who Shelters All, to push through Molten Rain.

Do you suppose KDL in place of Bob would make the deck a bit too top-heavy?

Inspired by Ham's dissection of the Red mid range strategy, I present a Modernized version of an old classic, Dos Rakis: Creatures: 20 4 Figure of Destiny 4 Goblin Guide 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Kargan Dragonlord 4 Stormbreath Dragon Spells: 12 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Slaughter Pact 2 Dismember 4 S...

Thank you for that most thoughtful post, Ham. Your insights have given me some ideas, and so as to not take this thread too far off course, I invite you to peek into the Big Red thread that I've got running. There are a couple of potential builds I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on. Somethi...

Might you have any insights on how a red-centric deck (perhaps splashing black for Terminate) would approach a midrange strategy? Skred is the premier red midrange deck for Modern, but its biggest weakness is that it is full of hate and somewhat short on threats. Here, it seems you've got an adequat...

Nicely done, Ham. Hopefully your opponents are still in a state of shock when you drop that Hide // Seek.

My Dragon Stompy demands a playset of Rolling Earthquake.

A deck that relies exclusively on its sweepers would require you to be careful about how you use Figure. Your point about bolt in response to becoming 4/4, I know that this can happen in response to something like Kargan Dragonlord since Level Up is sorcery speed. This is my friend's take on the dec...

I'm thinking of losing my Reckoners for Figure of Destiny. It passes the Bolt Test whereas Reckoner fails. Yes, you get Reckoner's damage effect, but you're still losing a body in a deck with precious few. Losing Reckoner could constitute a major loss of tempo. Molten Rain seems powerful in this dec...

My favorite arc is still the original one that introduced Guts and the Godhand. It was gritty, pulpy and quite fun.

I'm planning on taking this to a local FNM this week. Thankfully, no one in my area has Kiki-Jiki. Beats 4 Boros Reckoner 4 Koth of the Hammer 2 Chandra, Pyromaster 4 Stormbreath Dragon Spells 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Skred 4 Magma Jet 2 Pyroclasm 3 Anger of the Gods Other Permanents 4 Coldsteel Heart 4 B...

How's Flamespeaker been? I've seem some lists elsewhere running it with two swords.

I've heard Skred talked up as a possible response to Twin decks. With that in mind, here's my take on a moonless...what should we call it? Creatures 4 Boros Reckoner 4 Stormbreath Dragon 3 Demigod of Revenge Spells 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Skred 3 Pyroclasm 2 Anger of the Gods 1 Dismember 4 Coldsteel Hear...

Fireheart is first on the chopping block for Ram-Gangs.

He's done his fair share of work. The trick is getting him past Remand.

Creatures 4 Figure of Destiny 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Kargan Dragonlord 4 Boros Reckoner 3 Boggart Ram-Gang 3 Stormbreath Dragon Planeswalkers 4 Koth of the Hammer Spells 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Flame Slash 2 Flame Javelin Lands 3 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 21 Mountain Sideboard 2 Zo-Zu the Punisher ...

There's some interesting red decks in the Modern forum that caught my attention. I decided to join up to bounce some ideas off everyone else and get some ideas for my own red decks.