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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 1:43PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 10, 2011
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So, I've never played red and I figured since I'm just getting back into magic and I wanna see how I am gonna fair at FNM, so why not kill two birds with one stone and construct a t2 red deck specifically RDW. So this is what I'm looking at to construct for my list for FNM. I'm looking for all sorts of help; sideboard, main deck choices and all that sort of stuff. RDWLands: 21 x Mountain  Creatures: 3 x Chandra's Phoenix  2 x Grim Lavamancer  4 x Stormblood Berserker  4 x Stromkirk Noble  4 x Goblin Fireslinger  2 x Hero of Oxid Ridge  Other Spells: 4 x Incinerate  4 x Shrine of Burning Rage  4 x Arc trail  3 x Geistflame  3 x Brimstone Volley  Planeswalkers: 2 x Koth of the Hammer  Sideboard: 3 x Vulshok Refugee  3 x Traitorous Blood  3 x Manic Vandal  3 x Volt Charge  2 x Nihil Spellbomb 
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 1:49PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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I prefer Gut Shot to Geistflame in RDW, personally, and Volt Charge is mathematically better than Brimstone Volley in a red deck like yours (Koth, Stromkirk, Stormblood, Shrine).
Otherwise, your list is fine.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 1:51PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 25, 2011
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I prefer Gut Shot to Geistflame in RDW, personally, and Volt Charge is mathematically better than Brimstone Volley in a red deck like yours (Koth, Stromkirk, Stormblood, Shrine).
Otherwise, your list is fine.
Would you say that Brimstone Volley is better or worse than Incinerate? A 5 damage burn spell is great but is it playable? Should you have it?
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 1:57PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 10, 2011
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I prefer Gut Shot to Geistflame in RDW, personally, and Volt Charge is mathematically better than Brimstone Volley in a red deck like yours (Koth, Stromkirk, Stormblood, Shrine).
Otherwise, your list is fine.
I have Volt Charge on the sideboard, I do suppose you're right though. I was trying to be a hipster RDW but I guess I should go mainstream.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 2:00PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2011
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reckless waif  / merciless predator  as a one-drop? what do you think?
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 2:06PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 10, 2011
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reckless waif / merciless predator as a one-drop? what do you think?
I don't know how reckless waif is, it feels like it gives my opponent so much control over when it changes. But if you have any solid suggestions on what I can replace in the main deck and or sideboard to play it I'd be all for it and trying it out.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 2:12PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2011
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I like reckless waif and have been happy with it in my RDW deck. Honestly, I feel it works well since if your opponent doesn't have an answer, it is a decent creature early on. It also works well in partnership w/ stormblood to activate bloodthirst early and give you a good amount of total power early on. Honestly, you might just wanna include one or 2, although I'm not sure what you'd actually out it in for. I also like the idea of furnace scamp  just cause it has nice synergy w/ brimstone, but again, I'm not sure what you would take out for it.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 2:29PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 10, 2011
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Well as of now based on Mr. Indigo's sound judgment and advice I'm making a main deck swap so it'll look like this now RDWLands: 21 x Mountain Creatures: 3 x Chandra's Phoenix 2 x Grim Lavamancer 4 x Stormblood Berserker 4 x Stromkirk Noble 4 x Goblin Fireslinger 2 x Hero of Oxid Ridge Other Spells: 4 x Incinerate 4 x Shrine of Burning Rage 4 x Arc trail 3 x Geistflame 3 x Volt Charge Planeswalkers: 2 x Koth of the Hammer Sideboard: 3 x Vulshok Refugee 3 x Traitorous Blood 3 x Manic Vandal 3 x Brimstone Volley 2 x Nihil Spellbomb So I am not even main decking brimstone now.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 3:09PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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I prefer Gut Shot to Geistflame in RDW, personally, and Volt Charge is mathematically better than Brimstone Volley in a red deck like yours (Koth, Stromkirk, Stormblood, Shrine).
Otherwise, your list is fine.
Would you say that Brimstone Volley is better or worse than Incinerate? A 5 damage burn spell is great but is it playable? Should you have it?
That is a tougher call.
My burn suite in RDW is 4 Gut Shot, 4 Arc Trail, 4 Volt Charge. Arc Trail used to be Incinerate, but I found with tokens on the rise, the ability to two-fer a Crusader and something else was pretty good compared to instant speed, and there's not a whole lot at 3 toughness that you need to kill at two mana.
I wouldn't say 2 Brimstone on top of Volt Charges is necessarily bad, but I probably wouldn't go more than that as you don't want all your burn to be locked at 3 mana.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 17, 2011 - 3:26PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 25, 2011
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I prefer Gut Shot to Geistflame in RDW, personally, and Volt Charge is mathematically better than Brimstone Volley in a red deck like yours (Koth, Stromkirk, Stormblood, Shrine).
Otherwise, your list is fine.
Would you say that Brimstone Volley is better or worse than Incinerate? A 5 damage burn spell is great but is it playable? Should you have it?
That is a tougher call.
My burn suite in RDW is 4 Gut Shot, 4 Arc Trail, 4 Volt Charge. Arc Trail used to be Incinerate, but I found with tokens on the rise, the ability to two-fer a Crusader and something else was pretty good compared to instant speed, and there's not a whole lot at 3 toughness that you need to kill at two mana.
I wouldn't say 2 Brimstone on top of Volt Charges is necessarily bad, but I probably wouldn't go more than that as you don't want all your burn to be locked at 3 mana.
I find the new metagame is more like that.
Instead of running 4 of a specific card, try and split them because both are better in certain circumstances during the course of a game.
Running a split gives you the same card-type, but different opportunities to use them depending how you need them since neither card is "essential" to use.
Also, See my Mox Emerald thread :D
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Woot! Go RED! I love red! Red is awesome! Did I mention I love red? 
