Mono-red group-slug aggro built around Kratos's end-step tax. Kratos gives every creature haste and punishes each player for creatures that stayed home, so every opponent must either attack or take damage. The deck adds goad and forced-attack effects to push opposing creatures at other players, then stacks damage doublers and redundant burn so both the end-step triggers and its own hasty attackers hit far harder than they should. How it wins: Opponents bleed out from forced attacks into each other, Kratos and Angel's Trumpet end-step damage, and doubled or tripled combat and burn damage from its own hasty red attackers. Key roles: - Attack-or-burn tax: Kratos and a matching artifact punish every creature that didn't attack, so opponents choose between swinging into the table and eating damage each end step (Kratos, God of War, Angel's Trumpet). - Forced aggression and goad: Effects that make opposing creatures attack players other than this deck turn opponents' boards against each other, while some of these cards ping, profit or make Treasure when goaded creatures swing (Disrupt Decorum, Vengeful Ancestor, Puppet Master, String Puller). - Damage amplification: Doublers, a tripler and a flat +2 per red source multiply combat damage, burn pings and Kratos's own end-step triggers, since Kratos is a red source (Fiery Emancipation, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Dictate of the Twin Gods). - Hasty extra-combat beaters: Large red attackers, extra combat steps and evasion grants make the most of universal haste and keep its own creatures swinging every turn (Combat Celebrant, Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Etali, Primal Storm). - Defensive lockdown: Opposing creatures entering tapped, a cap on attackers and punishments for attacking keep the forced aggression aimed away from this deck (Uphill Battle, Crawlspace, Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs). - Devotion-fueled ramp and rummaging: Red cost reducers, rituals and Treasure-making card filtering fuel heavy red spells, which in turn power devotion payoffs and hand refills (Ruby Medallion, Neheb, the Eternal, Unexpected Windfall).

Kratos, God of War decklist

• Angel's Trumpet
• Arcane Signet
• Basilisk Collar
• Blackblade Reforged
• Cursed Mirror
• Fire Diamond
• Lightning Greaves
• Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
• Sol Ring
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Castle Embereth
• 31× Mountain
• Myriad Landscape
• Rogue's Passage
• Agitator Ant
• Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
• Archetype of Aggression
• Brash Taunter
• Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
• Combat Celebrant
• Combustion Man
• Etali, Primal Storm
• Fanatic of Mogis
• Fiendish Duo
• Frontier Warmonger
• Gornog, the Red Reaper
• Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• Puppet Master, String Puller
• Sunspine Lynx
• Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• Urabrask the Hidden
• Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• Vengeful Ancestor
• Vincent, Vengeful Atoner
• Curse of Opulence
• Dictate of the Twin Gods
• Fiery Emancipation
• Gratuitous Violence
• Maximum Carnage
• Sulfuric Vortex
• Abrade
• Big Score
• Chaos Warp
• Lightning Bolt
• Return the Favor
• Thrill of Possibility
• Unexpected Windfall
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• Blasphemous Act
• Disrupt Decorum
• Faithless Looting
• Light Up the Stage
• Mana Geyser
• Mountain
• Mountain
• Mountain
• Fiery Confluence
• Starstorm
• Mind Stone
• Commander's Sphere
• Everflowing Chalice
• Shiny Impetus
• Coronation of Chaos
• Taunting Kobold
• Fast Forward
• Bloodthirsty Blade