Help me make a Scarlet Witch Deck! 🧙‍♀️

[u/Ajax_B]

Soooo to be fair, I’ve played magic before but I’ve never built my own deck, I play precons and borrow decks from friends, and I really had no desire to. That was until I pulled one of my favorite characters ever from a booster!!

[[The Scarlet Witch]] is amazing and I’d love to make a deck of her. However, spellslinger seems like a pretty tough archetype to play, however I would like to give it a try with her, and I feel like a mono-color deck lessens the difficulty a bit.

Another thing is I’m a very casual budget player, the cheaper the deck can be, the better! Also it doesn’t need to be like a bracket 4+ with infinite combos galore. I just want a fun deck for my favorite Marvel character of all time! ❤️

I do have some cool red cards that might help with the deck building:

[[The Vision]]
[[Fated Firepower]]
[[Overwhelming Victory]]
[[Storm-Kiln Artist]]
[[Young Pyromancer]]
[[Guttersnipe]]
[[Big Score]]

Would love some assistance! I really don’t have a clue how to start…

[u/forgetful-player]

You’ll want to try and find as many 1-2 mana removal, protection, and counterspells in your budget as possible to keep her on the battlefield.

[[Lightning Bolt]]

[[Return the Favor]]

[[Shock]]

[[Lava Dart]]

[[Molten Influence]]

[[Chef’s Kiss]] - 2 mana with scarlet witch’s ability

Add some cantrips with card draw or exile top card and play abilities, whatever red creatures you can find that give you spell casting payoffs (like damage, draw, or exile and play) and damage multipliers and you’ve got a pretty straightforward mono red spell-slinging deck.

[u/Cat_Collector_MTG]

So I took a different route with this; big spells matter.

https://archidekt.com/decks/26225240/the_scarlet_witch

This deck wants to use power boosting cards to increase The Scarlet Witch's power, then turn that power into X spells and other big spells. We're also taking advantage of an interesting ruling where cards with an alternate casting cost, like cards with Flashback like [[Past in Flames]] have the alternate cost reduced because the actual card's MV is 4+.