When Maximus enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card with mana value 2, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
, Sacrifice an artifact: You get (two energy counters).
Suit up Maximus with cheap equipment to swing for trample damage as a Voltron threat, using his ETB tutor to grab a key 2-mana Equipment every time he re-enters. Sacrifice spent or token artifacts to bank energy, then convert that energy into payoffs while attrition-grinding through removal with cheap recast and protective gear.
Built-in equipment tutor that recurs every time Maximus enters or re-enters the battlefield
Trample makes equipped damage hard to chump-block, enabling fast commander-damage kills
Energy generation gives mono-red a flexible secondary resource and rewards sacrificing artifacts you no longer need
Mono-red keeps the deck cheap, consistent, and aggressive with strong equipment support
Classic Voltron fragility: removal, bounce, and 'can't be blocked'-irrelevant fogs set you back to square one
Energy ability is mana-hungry and needs strong payoffs to matter, or it's just filler text
Single-target damage struggles against go-wide and high-life-gain pods
Mono-red lacks card draw and interaction compared to multicolor decks
Tutors and recurs equipment while supplying artifact fodder for the energy sacrifice ability.
Tighten the equipment curve around 2-MV tutor targets like Colossus Hammer and Shadowspear, then add free-equip enablers (Sigarda's Aid, Puresteel Paladin, Sram) and protection (Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots). Improve card flow with Stoneforge Mystic-style finders and red rummaging, and lean into either a focused energy payoff suite or cut it for more raw aggression and haste enablers to land kills before removal catches up.
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
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