MTG Salvation

Kumano was probably the first general I wanted to build around, but eventually decided against it because, well, red sort of blows in EDH. But my other decks are getting sort of boring and samey so it's time to try for the impossible: a viable mono-red multiplayer EDH deck!



basic strategy:

the deck will probably be slow to start, but it's got tons of manafacts and lands to quickly ramp up to respectable amounts of mana. it's got quite a few draw engines so it can try to draw into one of the big kumano-aided bombs. imagine kumano with gauntlet of power or heartstone or gratuitous violence. imagine him with all three. imagine him with grafted exoskeleton. yipes.

Basically, once the deck gets rolling it'll try to use kumano politically to avoid getting hated on, i.e. "if you attack me, i'm going to do 20 damage to you and/or waste a bunch of your favorite creatures". or better yet, "If you try to destroy my extraplanar lens, i'm going to put 10 poison counter on you and prevent it from ever resolving".

needless to say, once you've got an adequate amount of mana and whatnot you can just start laying waste to the board and kill people right and left.

I doubt it's going to be tooo stellar, but kumano seems like a blast and trying to make mono-red seemed like a fun challenge.

any suggestions for stuff to add/cut?

Quote from Flyclops

Scythe of the Wretched doesn't return creatures killed by Kumano, if that's why you're using it.

lol, damn, i totally forgot about kumano's second ability the entire time i was making this. poo. and there were so many cool ways to use it, too. well so much for that savage piece of tech

I guess I'll replace it with...nim deathmantle maybe? or more mana? hmm.

Quote from Ambassador Laquatus

I'd cut Soulbright Flamekin for Coldsteel Heart. Heart can even be drawn off of Scrying Sheets since it's a snow permanent. Also Valakut is always nice in mono red.

I had heart in there before, but i liked soulbright more because he generates more mana and turns colorless into red (especially relevant with heartstone online). why would you recommend coldsteel heart over it?

i had valakut in there too, but my complaint with valakut is that it's not as nifty politically as kumano's damage, since it isn't instant speed. and what with the gauntlets and lens and all that, i kinda wanted as many mountains as possible. if the deck ends up being a failure politically, though, i'll probably put it back in.