How do I make Mono Red Pillow-Fort?

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Posted on March 30, 2018, 12:39 p.m. by StonedJesus

I was recently reminded of the existence of Slumbering Dragon, then I had the idea of making it a win-con in a mono-red pillow-fort deck. Do y'all have any suggestions, both card and strategy for making this hopefully weird deck?

StonedJesus says... #2

Maybe a splash of white for cards like Ghostly Prison, Moat, and Thundersong Trumpeter

March 30, 2018 12:43 p.m.

Caerwyn says... #3

None of those cards would work. If you want Slumbering Dragon to be your win condition, then you do not want to stifle your opponents' attacks.

If you want to go pillowfort, you could try a Curse of the Nightly Hunt/turbo-Fog deck, forcing your opponents to attack with everything, while still preventing that damage.

March 30, 2018 12:53 p.m.

legendofa says... #4

Manabarbs would restrict spells, Lust for War forces attacks while dealing damage. I think you should aim for finishing the game in one Slumbering Dragon swing. Are there any Fog effects in Modern mono-red that don't involve killing everything?

March 30, 2018 1:04 p.m.

Will361405 says... #5

I would recommend splashing white also for more removal, also what kind of budget would you be looking at? Because Blood Moon and Chalice of the Void are amazing, and if you do splash white Suppression Field can be great against fetch lands.

March 30, 2018 1:04 p.m.

greyninja says... #6

March 30, 2018 1:28 p.m.

StonedJesus says... #7

Most of those suggestions look legit, but I just made a deck that I'll test before incorporating them. Here's the list: Mono-Red Pillow Fort (Super Jank), how's that so far?

March 30, 2018 1:48 p.m.

Gleeock says... #8

Depends if you want multiple avenues of attack dissuasion or if you want more attacks to activate slumbering dragon. Other attack dissuasion/fortiness you could run Smoke, Ensnaring Bridge, Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs, Curse of Opulence, Crawlspace, Silent Arbiter... There are probably others

March 30, 2018 1:49 p.m.

StonedJesus says... #9

Nice, check out my deck and tell me what you think. I took the dragon out, I don't need him as a win con. I got Assemble the Legion and Needle Spires. Mono-Red Pillow Fort (Super Jank)

March 30, 2018 1:57 p.m.

Wurmlover says... #10

You don't, plain and simple. It just doesn't work in mono red. The closest you could get is stax, which is pretty cutthroat and unfun. Unless you're into that.

March 30, 2018 7:54 p.m.

StonedJesus says... #11

I've always been into Stax, we'll see how this goes

March 31, 2018 4:02 p.m.

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