Subject: Monored Artifact (Casual Format)
Total: 60

Lands: 20
16 mountains
2 strip mines
2 Rishadan Ports

Creatures:12
3 Skizziks
3 Lava Runners
3 Flametongue Kavus
3 Avalanche Riders

Spells: 12
4 Lightning Bolts
3 Pillage
3 Stone Rain
2 Wake of Destruction

Other: 16
4 Temporal Aperture
4 Sol Rings
2 Mishra's Helix
3 Ruby Medallions
3 Cursed Scroll

The deck mainly controls all the opponent's land and then kills them slowly, or quickly depending on if u get the Skizziks out or not. The sol ring combos in this are endless and that card is mainly the guts of this deck, holds it together. Ruby medallions make everything cheap ( as if everything in this deck isn't cheap enuff already), board control using stone rain, pillage, port, mine, helix, all of them keep the opponent under control. The Helix in particular keeps everything tapped and prevents too much from hitting the board till you can use wake of destruction and totally devastate. With Temporal Aperture cards stream off the top of your deck and acceleration gets really good. Lightning Bolt, enuff said, everyone knows its the best damage out there. I'd never make a red deck without it. Lava runners are going to really irritate people b/c they sac a land by targeting it. Kavus can knock out bigger creatures, and, when combined with a little scroll damage or a lightning bolt can kill a powerful creature. Avalanche riders are good, destroy a land and haste, you don't need to pay the echo if u don't feel like it, the card may as well read, destroy target land, its controller is dealt 2 damage. Overall, destroy their land, keep them paralyzed, and then sap them to death with creatures, and damage from scrolls/bolts. If you have any suggestions, write me at Janus907@aol.com.

~Eddie