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Commander / EDH Suns_Champion

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400 upvotes & many changes! —Dec. 16, 2019

A huge fireball of gratitude to everyone who has upvoted and commented on the deck! Much appreciated.

For a few weeks I agonized over huge structure changes of the deck, tinkering around with a looting/rummaging theme, more recursion, more spell slinger, more pingers, etc. What I found was that mono-red does not have the draw to support spell slinger, and the deck couldn't get enough damage without suiting up Neheb and going into combat.

With that in mind, I forged ahead with some changes that I fell balance the deck a little better. A little less voltron, a little less fluff and distraction. A little more draw, more spells, more damage, and more important creatures. see below!

Out:

• Vesuva: Simply too slow, and I want to lose the focus on Valakut, if it happens it happens.
• Buried Ruin: Losing a lot of artifacts this round, and I want to clean up my mana base.
• Stormbreath Dragon: Kinda in a weird mana range for Neheb.
• Past in Flames: Definitely a mistake, but I just hate this card. It's so much mana! Even for Neheb.
• Reiterate: Out for Fork.
• Electrodominance: Out for an actual win con X-spell.
• Savage Beating: Very expensive and timing restrictive.
• Expedition Map: I want to lose the focus on Valakut, if it happens it happens.
• Mirage Mirror: Loss of a pet card, you will be missed :(
• Pyromancer's Goggles: Kinda too expensive for a mana rock or a copy spell, might be back.
• Inspiring Statuary: The loss of artifacts makes this guy not as good. Might be back.
• Obsidian Battle-Axe: Just sub par, even though I liked what it did.
• Sword of War and Peace: The protection was nice, but damage and lifegain just aren't enough for a sword.

In:

• Myriad Landscape: Great turn 1 play, ramps and get extra mountains for Valakut.
• Glint-Horn Buccaneer: Awesome damage and card selection, great with wheels and Neheb III.
• Sandstone Oracle: Good 2nd-main phase play that can get me some cards. Then can fly.
• Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: The one I've been waiting for a long time. No explanation needed for this guy.
• Magus of the Wheel: Early attacker and low cost wheel later in the game.
• Molten Disaster: I found the need for another Win-con, and in terms of traditional X-spells, this one is the best.
• Fork: "hey, me too!"
• Seething Song: Turn 3 Neheb.
• Slagstorm: Flexible burn spell.
• Price of Progress: Sometimes, the numbers don't lie. this one gets me a lot of mana for just 1R.
• Embercleave: Going against the grain of this round of changes, but Embercleave is a beast of a card, and smacking this on Neheb, who also has afflict, is gold.
• Tome of Legends: This draws a lot of cards.
• Quest for Pure Flame: A more controllable damage doubler.

With all these changes, I think the deck is improved. After 4 games it went 2-2 and I didn't notice any downside to losing a land. Please post any thoughts in the comments!