My favorite card has to be Wort, Boggart Auntie. She is my favorite general in edh so far. Goblins are a rather deep tribe in their abilities and I'm not a fan of the 'battle cruiser' play style. After quite a few renditions I was able to tune it into a monster of a deck that could be the early weenie aggro threat with disruption, multiple mass resurrection spells to come back after board wipes, flood the board with tokens, utilize the colorless tribal pumps to turn those weenies into monsters, fight counter magic with red's small assortment of counter spells, fight board stalls and combo with black's assortment of disruption, and top it off with a general that is gravedigger on each of my upkeeps to keep the party going? The deck hasn't been together in almost a year and is still my fondest memory.
I'd love it if you made the text a little darker and thicker. It's hard to read on my phone. I tried the black layout but it makes the links blend in and become illegible.
Alternatively, death's shadow or nyxathid are what is written on the card for scavenge purposes despite the text on the card?
Honestly, outside of liliana, when would it be bad? If you resolve lili and need bridge, use her - and let her fog a turn, then bridge? I mean the argument is if you need bridge you have one less chance of having it in hand but two more chances of finding one and that is bad if you have cards still (first few turns) or bad if you're already behind AND only bridge will save you. I'm not saying you're wrong i just don't understand beyond that narrow circumstance.
I like the idea and certainly see your point of a threat that doesn't hurt your main deck. What situations/match ups do you use it? Obviously five lands total and the opponent's hand is empty ... beyond that?
What would you take sideboard into an unknown meta? I know before khans dropped there was scapeshift, multiple kiki/twin variants, pod, and delver decks but i have no idea now.
Edit: so it seemed strange to me so i tried just searching for "rack" and that too had zero results. I apologize, search must be down.
I have not yet had a child but per our unspoken agreement, when i do, please treat him or her with kindness. I assume dropping my first born off at the corporate office is fine?
Sincerely, mono red edh player.
Pod into a clone of pod in mono red. Is it more busted than other things in the format? No, but it's far from developing a diverse format.
What does the general excel at?
How do i maximize efficiency or minimize short comings of the general?
Card advantage?
Card selection?
Mana advantage/development?
Answers? (Targeted/mass removal of dudes, artifacts, lands, enchantments, or graveyards.)
Instant speed answers aka "Hasted Blightsteel?!"
Threats?
Alternative win conditions?
Now that i have a deck, are there similar cards that can lower my cmc?
Meta game hate?
As far as in game strategy, i like to get the game rolling. I will lose the long game to well played combo so i try to get the table involved in trading blows early without being seen as the threat. Assuming even play skill, the general threat order by color is;
Mono blue/heavy blue
Bug/rug
Mono black or bwx attrition
Mono green
Everything else
Ultimately, my group now is pretty straightforward and know most of my tricks and deck strategies. As i know theirs. When i used to play on mtgo i would have much less chance at meta gaming and much more need for in game strategies.
That is what I figured, thank you.
Where I was confused was that I thought Reiterate resolving meant putting a copy of Inner Fire on the stack and then by the time the copy of Inner Fire got a chance to resolve, Reiterate had already gone to my hand.
Assuming a hand of 6 x Mountain, Inner Fire, and Reiterate for a total of 8 cards
>Stack
>>Inner Fire holding priority
>>>Reiterate targeting Inner Fire
-pass priority
>Stack
>>Inner Fire
>>>Reiterate with buyback targeting Inner Fire resolves turning the stack into:
>Stack
>>Inner Fire
>>Inner Fire
-pass priority with Reiterate in hand
>Stack
>>Inner Fire
>>Inner Fire resolves resulting in seven mana added to my mana pool
-pass priority
>Stack
>>Inner Fire
>>>Cast Reiterate again leaving me +1 red mana and loop it to infinity and beyond!
What really happens then is that Reiterate resolving is the Inner Fire copy also resolving?
I got a raise and a new position at work. My next check should have almost $1000 of expendable income. My gift to myself was going to be Gauntlet of Might because I love mono red but a local store happens to have a lightly played Mana Crypt for sale for a comparatively reasonable price, so it may be both.
Anyway, my normal store has Wednesday and Saturday edh league and my new schedule means I can't go Wednesday but I'm now off Mondays. There is another store that runs Monday league night so I went tonight. Game one was typical of my normal store, meaning a longer, creatures attacking game. Game two was infinite elves on turn 7 with a rug player's counter magic, stifle, etc AND my two board wipes not stopping him. Game three had a guy who decided not to play Niv Mizzet when I accidentally flipped over a Pyroblast while I was shuffling and he went with Kokusho instead which ended with turn 6 we were all dead despite disruption.
Don't take me the wrong way, I'm not a cry in my pillow type of guy. I want to build something to take on this new meta and I'm going to do it the way I love to - with mono red. It would be super easy to turn Wort, Boggart Auntie into a combo monster or Chainer into a nightmare but my favorite color is red.
First thing to admit to is that I am shoehorning in an alt wincon of Molten Psyche. The enablers are Recoup, Past in Flames, Wheel of Fortune, Reforge the Soul, Memory Jar, Reiterate, Increasing Vengeance, Mindmoil, and of course - metalcraft. I've used it before and it works like a boss. Plus, all the cards have use outside of enabling Molten Psyche. I've even won out of my graveyard post Nicol Bolas to the face with Mind Crank on the field.
I built Krenko when he first came out, Kiki-Jiki before that, and I'm not terribly excited about revisiting either. Instead, I have my sites set on Purphoros. He is not as easy to go full combo, I know, but he's not exactly "fair" either. He's also less likely to immediately eat removal. Now I can thread search and brainstorm for ideas, I have quite a few on how to turn tokens into monsters already and I've day dreamed about token makers for him in the past, so that's not really want I want help with.
TLDR; Please give me all of your not Krenko/Kiki related infinite combos in red you can think of. The deck is Purphoros but it doesn't have to be related. Spare no expense in your suggestions, my budget has changed and I'm ready to blow some money on brown or red cards. Infinite mana is helpful considering x spells but I'm really looking forward to stuff that allows me to say, "Resolve? Ok, you're all dead."