Mono Red Madness discards Fiery Temper into exile to cast it via madness, so graveyard hate like Tormod's Crypt does nothing here and comes out. Electrickery's overload mode sweeps their 1-toughness creatures like Voldaren Epicure for two mana, blunting their early aggression. Cleansing Wildfire slows their clock by blowing up a Mountain while replacing itself, buying crucial time against their fast starts, and works well with our own basic-heavy, tapland-light manabase. Keep Journey to Nowhere and Lightning Bolt in to remove Guttersnipe and Kessig Flamebreather on sight, since letting those triggers pile up is how this matchup is lost.

Faerie Macabre is a major upgrade over Tormod's Crypt here because it can be discarded at instant speed to exile cards from the graveyard before they cast Tolarian Terror or Cryptic Serpent, denying the cost reduction. Pyroblast is excellent, countering Counterspell, Brainstorm, or any blue spell, or destroying a resolved Cryptic Serpent outright (or Tolarian Terror if you pay the ward cost). Pursue the Past is too slow against a deck full of cheap interaction and comes out, along with the second Tormod's Crypt since one Faerie Macabre-style effect plus targeted graveyard hate is enough.

Cleansing Wildfire is the best tool against Tron, destroying an Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant, or Urza's Tower and letting them only fetch a basic, which cripples their ability to assemble the colorless bonus mana while replacing itself with a card. Journey to Nowhere is weak here since their real threats are lands and artifacts, not creatures worth exiling, so it comes out in favor of proactive land disruption. Faerie Macabre can exile a milled card or graveyard piece at instant speed, while Tormod's Crypt is replaced since Faerie Macabre's instant-speed flexibility is better in a grindy matchup. Focus on denying their mana engine before Bramble Wurm and Nyxborn Hydra take over.