He then took it to the logical extreme when he made a deck entirely of Black Lotuses and Wurms so he could do it all on turn one
Mother of Runes Giver of Runes is seeing some play in Modern, but I dont think Mother of Runess ability to protect herself is too pushed for a format with a lot of one-mana kill spells
Surges Rattata, Mistys Seel, Giovannis Meowth, Blaines Vulpix, Mistys Staryu, Brocks Diglett, Kogas Zubat, Giovannis Nidoran f, Erikas Paras, Transparent Walls, Lt
The problem is that racing mono-red is still tough
Or even to your plan against decks with powerful two-card engines, where you need to try and put them on the fastest clock you can early, and then time your discard spells to keep them stuck on (at most) half a combo
In an Elf deck, this means you can wait until the end step before your turn to dump mana dorks onto the board