Red is always the aggressive color in Cube. It leverages early game hasty threats and casts as many Lightning Bolt effects as possible to slow down your opponent. It also is full of pinger effects and some sacrifice plans as well, but it always prioritizes combat over anything else. Let's look at what Red had to offer in 2025 and what you can add to your Cube pool.

Honorable Mention - Full Throttle

Aetherdrift was probably one of the weakest sets from 2025, even though there were a few outliers. Full Throttle is definitely one of those outliers. This six-mana noncreature spell is two extra combat spells in one card. Extra Combat spells are great for pushing for a win, but I'm unsure if the six mana on this spell will ever be worth it. I'm throwing it on the honorable mention tab because I think it's interesting and has some potential, what do you think?

5. Evendo Brushrazer

This is the only card on this list that plays into the Red sacrifice theme, but it is one of the best! Evendo Brushrazer is card advantage in the form of impulse draw if you sacrifice a nontoken permanent. If you don't have a way to sacrifice one, don't worry because this card does that for you! You can tap this creature and sacrifice a land to generate two Red mana triggering his other ability. This card is perfect for grinding into the later turns and helps to cast some late game threats.

4. Firebender Ascension

Firebender Ascension leans heavily into the combat focus that Red has. When this two mana enchantment enters, you get a 2/2 creature with Firebending 1. It can also double attack triggers once you get enough quest counters on it. This can double up on the Firebending ability or any other attack trigger you may have. Etali, Primal Storm always comes to mind when I think about attack triggers, but that's just the Commander player in me.

3. Devastating Onslaught

Devastating Onslaught is one of the splashiest and most impactful Red cards for Cube we received in 2025. This massive Mythic bomb creates lots of copies of any of your artifacts or creatures and gives them haste until end of turn. This is great for the late game when you have lots of lands in play and the board is stalling out. Devastating Onslaught works similarly to an Overrun effect, but it gets to take advantage of powerful "enters" triggers on both creatures AND artifacts. Some spells that create lots of tokens in a burst this way, exile them at the end step. However, this one says sacrifice them, which could also cause some triggers to come your way as a bonus.

2. Weftstalker Ardent

Impact Tremors is one of the most famous enchantments in Red for go-wide aggressive decks. They sometimes create creatures with similar lines of text like Witty Roastmaster and Purphoros, God of the Forge. Weftstalker Ardent is a brand new one of these creatures with the new Warp mechanic from Edge of Eternities. This creature combines the power of Impact Tremors and Reckless Fireweaver into one package, since it pings off artifacts and creatures entering under your control.

Weftstalker Ardent can be played for a single Red mana for a turn when you are putting lots of artifacts and creatures into play and then be cast on a later turn for its mana value. This will help protect it from pesky removal spells and give you more options for later turns. This is the most generically good Red card for Cube in my opinion, as Red will always be putting creatures and artifacts into play.

1. Cori-Steel Cutter

Cori-Steel Cutter is a powerful equipment spell that generates a 1/1 monk each turn you cast two spells. This is pretty easy to do in an aggressive Red strategy. Cori-Steel Cutter equips itself to the monk token it creates making it a 2/2 with trample and haste meaning you can attack with it immediately.

This equipment is incredibly good at pushing for early wins or helping in the late game by giving your biggest threat trample and haste for only two mana. If you are looking for ways to boost Red in your Cube and make it a little faster, this is a card that will help get it there.

That wraps up the color Red for Cube in 2025. Hopefully we get lots more powerful cards in 2026 that don't happen to also break the Standard meta again. The next article in this series looks at the color Green!

See you on the battlefield!

-Nigel