There are an awful lot of exciting Red cards in Hour of Devastation. From the namesake Hour of Devastation to Ramunap Ruins to Abrade, there are all manner of exciting new options for Red decks in this new Standard format. What’s especially exciting is how these new cards could push fringe strategies into the forefront, such as this one put together by _Antoniou_:

Mono-Red Eldrazi ? Hour of Devastation Standard | _Antoniou_, 5-0 Standard League

• Creatures (21)
• 2 Eldrazi Obligator
• 3 Reality Smasher
• 4 Glorybringer
• 4 Hanweir Garrison
• 4 Matter Reshaper
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Chandra, Torch of Defiance

• Instants (7)
• 2 Harnessed Lightning
• 2 Magma Spray
• 3 Abrade

• Sorceries (2)
• 2 Incendiary Flow

• Lands (26)
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Endless Sands
• 1 Sea Gate Wreckage
• 2 Desert of the Fervent
• 4 Aether Hub
• 4 Hanweir Battlements
• 4 Ramunap Ruins

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Eldrazi Obligator
• 1 Reality Smasher
• 2 Magma Spray
• 2 Akoum Firebird
• 1 Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1 Collective Defiance
• 2 Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1 Sin Prodder
• 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 2 Sweltering Suns

Buy This Deck

There are a number of things changing in this format that are bringing this style of deck back to the forefront. Hanweir Garrison is an exciting card that hasn’t seen nearly as much play as we might have expected. It’s a pseudo Goblin Rabblemaster that has the potential to Voltron up with a land that Red decks are going to want to play some number of anyway. Given that the format is no longer all about trying to value opponents out with Aetherworks Marvel, there’s space for 3-drops that generate a little bit of value and set up for big swings on turn five and six.

Perhaps the most exciting card in this deck is Eldrazi Obligator. When the format is defined by midrange mirrors, the ability to swing combat by taking your opponent’s best creature is absolutely huge when it makes space for Reality Smasher and company to crash in for huge chunks of damage.

If you miss smashing your opponents with powerful Eldrazi monsters, this deck seems like it’s in a very reasonable place in the new Standard format. This is a deck that’s packed with powerful spells and crazy haymakers, and is more than capable of just overpowering any other deck in the format.