Hellfire

by raggedjoe on 30 March 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Enchantments (3)


Land (20)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Legacy. Burn. With Fire.

Best quote on MTGS ever: [convo about the M10 rule changes] "Huh? Damage no longer stacks? Oh... I play burn."

Deck Tags

  • Burn

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

000500

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Hellfire

Price of Progress is a terrifying card to a player like me. Extraction and Tempo? Christ man, most of my tempo decks have ~A~ swamp! I've seen fellow extractors sideboard it for the Lands matchup though.

As for the rest of the deck, I like it, it's very aggressive. How does it play? And how fast can it kill?

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Posted 02 April 2011 at 21:45

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This deck is great. Since you never want more than three/four mountains in a game, you can run this rediculous threat density. I have 20 3 damage/1 mana burn cards. The basic idea is that when I resolve my 6th spell, I win. Now lets race.

A common missconception is that you need an explosive start. Not true. You have an auto 6-turn clock if the op doesnt have counterspells. 4-5 turn wins are the goal here. You auto lose to CounterTop, Combo (two turns slower on average), and Dragon Stompy but have virtually no other bad mus.


Matt Elias has a few great lines about this deck:

"I think the answer is yes; Burn is a viable strategy any time Counterbalance is missing from the format. I mean, really, what are most decks doing right now? Hey look, I made a Progenitus. Who cares? You're dead. Hey look, I have Mother of Runes to protect my stuff. Can it protect your face? No? You're dead. Hey, I'm Goblins! Guess what? I killed your Lackey, and now I have plenty of time to burninate your face off, and… you're dead.

"All Burn is, really, is some lands, some creatures that are essentially burn spells, and then, well, burn spells. Thus the highly creative name; it isn't an ironic title, folks."

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Posted 03 April 2011 at 06:29

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