Geosurge is still good enough to drop a big finisher (Inferno Titan, Wurmcoil Engine, maybe Balefire Dragon if you want to get cute) on turn 4, but that requires having both the enabler and the big creature in your starting 10 -- and remember that contemporary mono-red doesn't really have filtering or card draw
What I said about Coram applies, maybe even more, here: Korvold does double duty as a threat to opposing life totals and an unstoppable value engine
As outrageously impossible as Fynn's tale might seem, he proudly carries a shield made from a single scale of the monstrous serpent
Mage Siege
Emerald: If you like to punish your opponent by forcing them to discard or return cards to their hands, this is the ink color for you
It ended up being a fun card to build around and players flocked to it, so it managed to escape its cycle and just became a card on its own