In five months' time I might be playing MUD at GP Lille because I think it is well positioned against Miracles, combo and anything non-blue. I have started to ponder different lists: One of them is monobrown and rather similar to what others play, another one includes the colour red for Daretti and Welders. However, I feel that Welder and - similarly - Metalworker are always the most easily hated part of the deck with a close scond being the 10/11-Post manabase. I was asking myself how a MUD deck could do without either. More specifically I want to run the typical lockpieces (Chalice and 3sphere) and the midgame-bombs (Wurmcoil Engine, Steel Hellkite, Forgemaster, Sundering Titan) without being too susceptible to Wasteland and every creature removal in the format. I think it is possible with a red splash. And maybe someone else wants to join in brewing. This is what I started testing with.


4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
3 Cavern of Souls
4 Darksteel Citadel
10 Mountain

4 Mox Diamond
4 Grim Monolith
3 Thran Dynamo

4 Chalice of the Void
3 Trinisphere
2 Blood Moon

3 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Steel Hellkite
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Sundering Titan
1 Blightsteel Colossus

2 Daretti, Scrap Savant
4 Wildfire


The list might miss the mana of Cloudpost although I don't think so after initial testing. It certainly wants to run Voltaic Key but Chalice says no to that plan. The manabase is pretty close to what Kai Budde used during Worlds in 1999 and that's where the idea of using Wildfire comes from.

Things I would want to change if I saw how:

a) Reduce the number of lands: I would go to 22 or even as low as 20 if it wasn't for Mox Diamond. Maybe there is a way of substituting that?
b) Include Ugin: He might take the place of Sundering Titan or 1 Wildfire.
c) Include Voltaic Key: I don't see that due to Chalice.

Other than that, the deck runs the best lockpieces in Legacy, is full of bombs, has an engine in Daretti and can generate ridiculous amounts of mana relatively unmolested. Tell me what you think about a Wildfire-version of MUD (if that is still MUD).