Mirrodin Cards That Will Wash The Flames Away

I was planning to play a variant of Red Deck Wins for the upcoming Extended extravaganza. Then I saw the Chalice of the Void… First-turn Ancient Tomb, Chalice set on one? Cheers for playing. Red Deck Wins has almost thirty one-drops, and the Chalice shuts them all down. Yes, there’s Shatter, or Pillage, or Mogg Salvage in the board, but even so… The loss of the important early two or three turns is crippling. A second Chalice and it’s clobberin’ time.

Firefighters are heroes in real life. Dousing flames in gutted buildings, rescuing stranded cats, touring schools to dissuade any adolescent…

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