smallpox?

Smallpox is a great card, esp. in 8-Rack! I'm just not sure it fits here. Compared to 8-Rack, we're not as interested in reducing our opponent to 0 cards. We also have a much higher curve, higher than most Modern decks. I guess it's great against Tron? The creature removal mode is very useful, but we desperately need more instant-speed removal (than our single Bolt) first.

I'll add it to the Maybeboard

Have you played this deck anywhere yet? I kinda want to try it

And what do you think of Dark Deal?

If you're playing Casual, Dark Deal might be worth trying. Since this is geared towards competitive Modern, you're almost always hitting 1-4 cards with Dark Deal, whereas Burning Inquiry always hits 3, making it a worse Burning Inquiry for extra mana. Collective Defiance is almost a strict upgrade, and I'm not even sure if it's playable.

I played a bit online but ran into all aggro decks, so it didn't do so well. It should be good vs. combo and control (which are actually more prevalent than aggro in competitive Modern). It trounces any casual decks, of course.

How about Manamorphose, in order to convert black mana into useful red, wheel effects producing one?

Hey thanks for the feedback! That seems like a reasonable idea at first. However since there aren't any decks that play Manamorphose for the sole purpose of color fixing, I'm going to say it's probably not right here either.

We aren't even red/green and don't play storm or delve (barely). The upside is so little and the downside is certainly there. First of all it only converts red black to double red, meaning we can't use it anyways for turn 3 wheels. Second its a dead card if we don't already have red (it's like a bad Graven Cairns), and makes mulligans harder. Third we would normally just cycle it as soon as possible rather than sitting with a dead card in hand hoping it'll help us wheel some day.

Keep the ideas coming though!

You are certainly red, and have ways to draw a lot of cards while producing mana of a color you can use to force your opponent to loot their hands (thus producing even more value out of waste not). But much like storm, the color you produce isn't the best one to combo off (even if your deck is much more control-ish, which I hadn't noticed for some reason), so morphose can be useful (even if really not necessary here). x)

"100% Competitive" god damn