In my opinion, the strongest things you can do in Mono Red are: "Glass cannon" decks that either quickly pop off and win before opponents can stabilize, like Storm, Krenko, Purphoros, Slicer Crushing nonbasic lands, aka defeating a large chunk of players with a single Blood Moon The problem with these two strengths is that they aren't always the right pick for casual tables
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I dont think the card quality past this is quite there for U/R Pirates, even if the mana with Spirebluff Canal is, but if you tried it, I wouldnt fault you
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Sin, Spiras Punishment is a great reanimator target that also pitches to Force of Negation and Force of Vigor