A Mostly Budget Mono Red Control Deck

Commander / EDH*

marflepop

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Scrambleverse
• 1x Shreds of Sanity
• 1x Star of Extinction
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Volcanic Vision
• 1x Wild Guess

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Planar Chaos
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Instant (13)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Fiery Temper
• 1x Magma Jet
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Creature (9)

• 1x Dismissive Pyromancer
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Mad Prophet
• 1x Magma Phoenix
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Rummaging Goblin
• 1x Shard Phoenix

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Dragon's Claw
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trading Post

Land (38)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x High Market
• 33x Mountain
• 1x Temple of the False God

---

Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Alpine Moon
• 1x Possibility Storm

Land (2)

• 2x Mountain

---

Mono red control deck focused around stalling the game and cycling using the interaction with discard->draw effects and Squee, Goblin Nabob in order to draw through your deck and possibly find a win condition. If this fails you can probably lower every players' health pool significantly through powerful dual-purpose boardclears. This deck is for you if: 1. You like gameplay focused around slowing everything down in order to get a cheeky win or a mutually destructive finish. 2. You can't help but feel attracted to the charm of Squee, Goblin Nabob. 3. You don't mind everyone hating you.

As much as I love it, the deck has three large weaknesses: 1. No good way to remove problematic enchantments or indestructible creatures. This is why Ratchet Bomb and Nevinyrral's Disk are in the deck. 2. Many of the board clears hurt all players as well. Since this includes you (a player who has a low defense and minimal health gain) it can mean if anyone targets you, you might have too low a health pool to clear without dying. I tried to lower the life issue with the use of Dragon's Claw and Trading Post, but it doesn't stop people attacking you. Try to play politics with threatening board clears best you can to avoid being smacked down. 3. Its stuck to only three conditions: Vicious Shadows, Price of Progress, and Insurrection. If these fail or you can't get them to work properly, you basically lose. Also since all of them depend on your opponents' status it makes them fairly inconsistent, too. The only other win conditions are grinding people out with tokens from Desecrated Tomb and board clears that hurt their health pool while you slowly stabilize.

This deck has gotten so much hate that some of my friends claim that Squee, Goblin Nabob is overpowered, which is most definitely not true. The deck is bad and not very fun to play against, but it is satisfying to sneak a win off of much more competitive, creature heavy decks.

Sideboard has a few cards first to be replaced by the acquireboard.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 2 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	96
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Dragon 5/5 R, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goat 0/1 W
Folders	my decks