The idea.

It started as these things often do: someone else trying something interesting with Tifa Lockheart.

Now I am less thrilled with the three color manabase here; Steppe Lynx and Akoum Hellhound are relevant one drops but I think we all know that they don't get the job done. Maybe I'm just bad at committing to the idea but I really don't think those cards are good enough, so instead I went with this.

4 Tifa Lockhart
2 Voice of Victory
3 Grand Abolisher
3 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
3 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Elvish Reclaimer

4 Crop Rotation
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Royal Treatment
3 Berserk

6 Forest
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
4 Ghost Quarter
2 Temple Garden
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Sejiri Steppe
2 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Cabaretti Courtyard

3 Wrenn and Realmbreaker

4 Scale Up

This was my first take on the deck and I don't think it's bad! There's some powerful effects in there, but I kept finding that I wasn't getting as many landfall triggers as I would like when I goldfished it.

What, I kept thinking, is a way to get multiple lands into play? Then it hit me: Veteran Explorer. And there's already a shell for that card with Cabal Therapy! So: 

4 Tifa Lockhart
3 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
2 Elvish Reclaimer
4 Veteran Explorer
3 Voice of Victory

4 Crop Rotation
4 Royal Treatment
3 Berserk
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Infernal Grasp

7 Forest
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Godless Shrine
2 Plains
1 Underground Mortuary

4 Scale Up
4 Cabal Therapy

Now we're talking. I don't know if this is good, but it's a neat place to start. Yes, it's still a 3 color deck, but I think that Black offers me a lot more power than Red does, and as it turns out, I already had a G/B deck that I wasn't super thrilled with and could retire. 

So let's see where this goes!