Lesser of 2 Evils

Thanks. I suspect there are other "choice" decks out there, but I started coming across a lot of black and red choice cards that seemed like they would work together and wanted to see what they looked like in a deck. This is what I have so far. A bit creature light, but I think it could work. I'll have to run some test games.

http://www.mtgvault.com/captnross/decks/allow-or-burn/
I made this deck awhile back, but it was interesting to see Black added to it. I never really considered making it anything other than mono red. Though I'm a slave to the older sets.

Of course ! Thanks, how could I forget about that.

add rakados lord of riots

Rakdos is too slow and hard to cast

Rakdos's Return could be a viable option, X mana = X Burn and Discard X cards.... not really a choice for them, but it hits 2 niches at once.

rakdos lord of riots is a late game finisher

Nice list, fun cards, these are all right within the Deck Theme. Let's see, for this deck ....

For the Book Burning, they would just mill the 6, and since the deck won't mill them out, that doesn't go very far.
The Breaking Point could work at the right time, but the downside may be too much.
Lava Blister also seems 50/50, you don't know if you'll see non-basic land ahead of time, though a portion of people use them regularly, and it does fit with the dwarven driller.
Molten Influence is the best one in this list, fits right in.
Tyrannize is a bit expensive: since the deck isn't ramp, by the time you cast it, there's a good chance they wont have many cards. If they are holding 1-2, you could have them discard for 2 mana rather than 5.

You are totaly right :)

It also goes deliciously well with lightning bolt. "Oh, so you decided to spare your manadork and take 5 to the face? I guess I'll have to bolt him afterwards, then."

Fuuuuu...that's dirty, ecspecially once they realize that you only spent two mana.

Yah, there are enough red variants to do a solid red version, looks good.

I found a card you might like called Choice of Damnations

Good card, could work, sub a few in for something weak like the rhystic syphon. Not a fan of having to discard myself though.

Nice, I'll add it to sideboard.

Looks like it's possible. Roughly, 100 cards minus 40 lands = 60, minus 20 edh staples and fixer cards, leaves about 40 cards of this type that you would need. There's 18 in the deck atm, and about 10 or so more listed throughout the thread that aren't in the deck, so about 28 so far. Which, means that you need to find about 12 more, and that seems plausible. Won't be the best edh ever, but could be fun. Kaervek is a beast anyways, so that helps.

agreed
That always leaves your opponent with a 2 evils choice: either sac a creature and keep it tapped, making it stronger OR risk 6 damage with flying

its only 4 mana too

True.
Even more EVIL

I agree with the Des Demons. Put some in!!

Oh, Hi there! And with the same name no less. I almost called mine "Damned if you do...", but the Lesser of Two Evils phrase seemed more catchy. Like I said in my response to the first comment, I suspected there were other "choice" decks out there, but didn't research it at first, and just started listing cards.

From what you suggested, and looking at your deck, I found 3 more cards I liked. I thought the Worms were, eh, but the Forbidden Ritual, Lethal Vapors, and Shivan Wumpus are solid. Onlytruereject suggested/wondered-about making an EDH version a few posts back, and at that point, it looked like one would only need to pick about 12 more good choice cards, This brings it to 9, I'm sure they are out there.

For those interested in these type of decks, check out The Answer's version here: http://www.mtgvault.com/theanswer/decks/lesser-of-two-evils/

With Theros, an EDH deck actually might be achievable with this deck's fundamental idea. It just may become my next EDH deck. I tend to like control type decks for EDH but the thought of screwing them by allowing them to pick a choice? That sounds amazing, especially with a 100 card deck stock full of things like this.