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The Show-runner

Since I'm not doing a game during the evening, I might as well handle this now.

Firesong and Sunspeaker Burn?

Scarlet's deck is built around the buy-a-box promo legendary minotaur pair Firesong and Sunspeaker. I bought a box. I got the commander. I built them. I like playing odd combinations, so making a RW spellslinger deck amused me. The normal goal is: play the six mana commander, drop a damage boardwipe to gain a stupid amount of life, then try to win with either life based alternative win conditions, Aetherflux Reservoir, or more burn.

As far as the match is concerned, Game one played in what is rapidly becoming how that Kadena deck is going to play: early ramp leading to commander and the commander snowballs too quickly to really stop. Game 2 went to Scarlet because burns spells plus Gisela went over the horde of morph creatures. Game 3, Volcanic Offering is a mean card in this format. And there is a reason why Sol Ring is banned in the usual 1v1 Commander format (not that Andromeda would have a problem with it).

Commander:

• Firesong and Sunspeaker

Creatures (20):

• Mother of Runes
• Young Pyromancer
• Heartflame Duelist
• Knight of the White Orchid
• Dire Fleet Daredevil
• Monastery Mentor
• Guttersnipe
• Tajic, Legion's Edge
• Imperial Recruiter
• Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer
• Leyline Tyrant
• Ardent Elementalist
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Phyrexian Vindicator
• Mangara, the Diplomat
• Neheb, the Eternal
• Felidar Sovereign
• Purity
• Sun Titan
• Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Instants (12):

• Red Elemental Blast
• Swords to Plowshares
• Deflecting Palm
• Boros Charm
• Electrodominance
• Lightning Helix
• Aurelia's Fury
• Risk Factor
• Riot Control
• Wear // Tear
• Return to Dust
• Volcanic Offering

Sorceries (11):

• Vandalblast
• Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
• Crackle with Power
• Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• Idyllic Tutor
• Jeska's Will
• Chain Reaction
• Khorvath's Fury
• Volcanic Vision
• Star of Extinction
• Blasphemous Act

Artifacts (15):

• Sol Ring
• Elixir of Immortality
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Boros Signet
• Arcane Signet
• Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
• Lightning Greaves
• Magebane Armor
• Commander's Sphere
• Sunforger
• Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
• Cosmos Elixir
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Pyromancer's Goggles
• The Immortal Sun

Enchantments (5):

• Land Tax
• Smothering Tithe
• Test of Endurance
• Blessed Sanctuary
• Double Vision

Lands (36):

• Sundown Pass
• Spinerock Knoll
• Spectator Seating
• Smoldering Crater
• Secluded Steppe
• Scavenger Grounds
• Sacred Foundry
• Rugged Prairie
• Radiant Summit
• Plains (5)
• Path of Ancestry
• Myriad Landscape
• Mountain (7)
• Mistveil Plains
• Inventors' Fair
• Furycalm Snarl
• Forgotten Cave
• Fabled Passage
• Eiganjo Castle
• Drifting Meadow
• Detection Tower
• Command Tower
• Clifftop Retreat
• Arid Mesa
• Arch of Orazca
• Arcane Lighthouse