Archon of Suns Grace and Ajanis Chosen perform similar roles, but with the added benefits of lifelink or spreading your auras around
The current deck list for Mono Red Aggro is as follows: Creatures: 4 Ghitu Lavarunner 4 Goblin Chainwhirler 4 Runaway Steam-Kin 4 Viashino Pyromancer Spells & Enchantments: 4 Light Up the Stage 4 Lightning Strike 2 Skewer the Critics 4 Shock 4 Wizards Lightning 4 Experimental Frenzy Lands: 22 Mountains Sideboard: 2 Banefire 3 Fiery Cannonade 2 Fight with Fire 4 Lava Coil 1 Mountain 3 Treasure Map Sadly, despite the hype of this deck, it has largely failed to impress and has been overshadowed by other powerful decks that have pulled ahead in recent tournaments
Eldritch Evolution lets you upgrade your creature by a factor of two mana instead of the usual one mana
Fun fact: With the release of Planechase in 2009, the card Fractured Powerstone was also released, which allows us to tap it to roll the planar die without paying additional costs
(The same older printings of this card also fail to reference the "battle" card type, which didn't exist at the time, but Tarmogoyf's ability still counts that card type.)
The vast majority of the time, giving an opponent a 2/4 creature in exchange for taking out their most potent or important creature in the process is worth the tradeoff