Hey, no worries on the delay, really appreciate it! I actually put together the deck myself and played my first game against a buddy's more meta mono-black deck, but you're totally right. The burn + the constant pressure from the phoenixes made all of our games really really close. He started out with
thoughtseize and realized he's going to lose 2 life only to remove a
shock from my hand anways.
I notice you have to win quickly or you run out of steam a little, but maybe that's just the nature of mono-red. The Chandras would probably be great for when you need to be a little grindier.