However, I dislike the card as I do not believe the average list plays enough instants and sorceries to support it, and Frank Karsten’s math seems to indicate you need about eighteen to nineteen instants and sorceries to make it work, which the Wizard deck doesn’t play. If you go down the Wizards path, then Ghitu Lavarunner is an option. Even if you are playing the Devotion list with less non-creature spells, I still believe these one drops are the best. Of the one-drops you have available, I think Monastery Swiftspear, Soul-Scar Mage and Kumano Faces Kakkazan are the best options by a large margin. Your best draws tend to be the aggressive ones, so it’s important you lean into that.Īgainst the unfair decks of the format, like Mono Green Devotion and Lotus Field, being fast is crucial to winning the game. I believe that the red decks in Pioneer want at least twelve one-drops, with the more aggressive builds wanting even more. This means you can replicate the play patterns you’re after more consistently. Monastery Swiftspear and Soul-Scar Mage, Lightning Strike and Skewer the Critics. You also have a lot of redundancy because many of your cards are similar to one another, e.g. Your burn spells double up as being both creature removal and going right at their face, which means you’re not worried about having “dead” cards in hand like you might do if you had Dire Tactics instead. You have more utility lands than any other deck in the format, which means you’re less likely to lose to flooding.

The strength of the red deck is its consistency and malleability. your creatures are smaller, and your average curve isn’t as smooth as that of Humans’. If you compare Mono Red to other aggro decks like Humans, I think you’re a “worse” aggro deck i.e. I don’t think Mono Red is particularly better than the other strategies in the format, but I like how well-rounded the Red decks in the format are. I initially tried a couple of different archetypes, but quickly found myself being drawn to the Mono Red decks.

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