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You cannot easily afford the card disadvantage and you don't need that early boost like the other colours do as you have plenty of one mana ramp

"No matter who you are, you can celebrate Black history

In older formats, red prison decks blur the line between midrange and control, using rituals to play expensive and prohibitive effects early to tax an opponent before whittling their life away

This puts the opponent in a position to choose between securing setups on their bench or trading that off for increased incoming damage

Better Augur of Autumn in some decks

Its also a good curve with Draconautics Engineers exhaust ability, or if you have multiple ways of making dragons