Well if you want speed then I think Lackey/Marshall is the best bet for a red deck.
But what is a fast burn sligh supposed to beat?
It won`t beat Replenish (too good), or Stompy (too big), or WWeenie (too Prot), it might worry blue (except it won`t) I guess it could maybe pressurise Bargain (but not as fast as Stompy), it doesn`t have a hope against Suicide (everything is 4/4) or Tinker (everything is 8/8), although I guess it might have enough to annoy Squirrel Prison (because it`s crap and anything beats it).
It`s like Adrian Sullivan said about Ponza "Ive been asking around for what Ponza beats, and the best answer I came up with was 'other Ponza decks'".
What does Sligh beat?
Other Sligh decks. Half the time.
If you want to play an aggressive Sligh deck my advice to you would have to be to take all the Mountains out and replace them with Forests. A fast-tuned Stompy deck like this feels an awful lot like Fireblast Sligh when you play it.
It`s missing a Ball Lightning - but you can`t have everything.
3 Elven Lyrist
3 Stampede Driver
4 Skyshroud Ridgeback
4 Pouncing Jaguar
4 Wild Dogs
4 River Boa
4 Albino Troll
4 Rancor
4 Giant Growth
4 Seal Of Strength
2 Treetop Village
4 Rishadan Port
16 Forest
No. of cunning tricks: 0
No. of big fat monsters: 0
If you want to include anything bigger than the Trolls then you need to add in Cradles, which I don`t want to do because they screw up my first turns. Dryads and Cutters are really poor.
Actually - that reminds me of the funniest thing I have seen in a tournament since I saw somebody start a game with:
Brushland, tap for Green, Gazhban Ogre
Somebody actually made this first turn play - and they were on table 3 in the fifth round so they weren`t some Johnny Random scrub.
Forest, Wild Dogs, give you five life, Cutter
Oh...
My...
God!
He lost that game, for some reason.
Cutters, eh - they`re just a synergy MACHINE!
Wow, that just made this topic nice and green, didn`t it.