#norin

Minori Nakazawa (中沢みのり) - No-Rin (のうりん) Made by Digital Waifu Gallery

Alright, let's see if we can damn them if they do, damn them if they don't.

First thought was to these two, giving you haste, and an incentive for opponents to block your creatures the turn they come down... Or take extra damage from it. But we can do better, especially since in a deck like this these would likely be the top end of the curve.

If the defending player is the Monarch, they'll want to protect that crown for their own use! Or give it to you, either way. As a bonus, if they or someone else blocks emberwilde captain you can get the crown back anyway since it's an etb, and on-theme too!

Partey! It's your opponents call: they can either take a full brunt assault equal to the number of creatures you control, try to blunt that assault by blocking stuff so that you get them back into your hand before first strike damage hits them, or block the Life of the Party with some chump and allow you to give everybody else another round of Party elementals. That all sounds great!

Do your opponents really don't want to block? Well, that's a way to make some mana then! And retrigger Offspring on ETB. And ping everybody twice with impact tremors. Or you could get some free treasures? Though two aren't that many... Speaking of.

Your opponents don't want to block? Great! Kill them.

If your deck is full of cheap creatures, Trumpet Blast them once or twice. Mercadia's Downfall is very likely to be lethal. The Whacks are less so but they're creatures that can be picked back up if blocked. The others are varying degrees of incentives. You're in red, if your opponents want to be so gracious as to let your creatures through, have some instants ready to punish that. That should condition them to decide more wisely next time.

As far as ramp in red, there aren't miracles to be made as of yet. I can show some excellent pieces, but none will be all too original, and the generic ones that can go in any monocolor deck tend to get pricey. Red can generate a lot of burst mana with the likes of Mana Geyser, but sustained ramp is harder.

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