Hidetsugu Ain't Your Pal, Buddy (EDH / Commander)

Here's a budgety deck Heartless Hidetsugu deck that tries to fire off his ability to win the game.

Hidetsugu combos with damage doublers like Furnace of Rath, Dictate of the Twin Gods and others, however to make sure he doesn't also kill the one running the deck you need lifelink on Hidetsugu or something like Glacial Chasm or Fortune Thief.

It's worth noting that Hidetsugu and damage doublers don't KO opponents at odd life totals, 31 for example. We can use Treasonous Ogre to set ourselves at an odd life total to survive the combo, and we can use cards like Shivan Gorge or Ramunap Ruins to finish opponents off.

For good measure the deck also runs Malignus + Chandra's Ignition which blows opponents up if a damage doubler is on the board.

The deck doesn't have much in way of tutoring, except Gamble and Expedition Map for Glacial Chasm, but it runs a ton of looting & cycling in order to find combo pieces.

It also runs sufficient removal, while it's no white mana wraths Blasphemous Act, Hour of Devastation, Chain Reaction and more should keep the board in check. Since it's mono-red there's also a lot of artifact removal like Vandalblast and Smash.

In the deck there's most of the ramp mono-red can run on a budget since the combo pieces can be mana-intensive.

Weaknesses of the deck would be the lack of board-presence, lack of protection and a combo that's easily disrupted. There's a lot of cards in the sideboard you can run if you find the combo interrupted by counters or removal spells.

If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please let me know!