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Well most red decks go for burn, as that's what its known for. Is that what your wanting to do?

I don't know exactly how burn works... I basically just read the gameplay manuals and that's it.
I don't know much of anything, really.
Now, it should be mentioned that I have almost 2,000 cards altogether (including red, green, white, blue, black, and colorless). I simply want to make the best deck I can with what I've got,
Again, I appreciate any help offered.

Thanks,
-Neo

If you wanna do red burn find cards that deal damage to players & creatures (mainly players). The less it costs the better nothing over like 3. Creatures need to either hit and leave play or do damage w/ effects. Burn is easy like green beater decks. Just remember by turn 5 they sould be dead or at like 1 otherwise you should try again. Look at burn here and try to emulate LIGHTNING BOLT is a must have and if you don't they are cheap & common.

I was actually hoping for something more specific... I mean, here I have a ton of cards, and I want to build decks, but I don't know how or really even what to start with. And once I start building, how do I know where to go?

How about some specific examples of good cards to use in a burn deck?

Alright its like the other guy said burn is direct, non combat damge to a targey or creature. Basically do that, but you'll want cards that work well together, that's synergy. Say you have a... his name escapes me. But he's 4/3 elemental and whenever you play a spell like lightning bolt he'll double that damage, that's six. Now play a reverberate right after, that lets you copy target spell. Copy that lightning bolt. BOOM!! You just dealt 12 damage to your opponent in one turn with only 3 mana, provided the elemental was already out. Here take a look at my deck http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=236532 now I'm not trying to brag but it has proved to be a good deck and that's because its pure synergy almost every card can work with all the others. That's what you want to go for and you'll have to do some research.

Okay... So how many of these Cards should i have in one deck? I think four Lightning bolts would work. I found that creature you were talking about. It's a Fire Servant. Okay, I think I got the general gist of it...

I'll post again later on with the cards I think might work.

Okay, I got the following together:
4x Staggershock
3x Goblin Arsonist
4x Shock
3x Fire Servant
1x Lust For War
4x Lightning Bolt
1x Blaze
4x Burst Lightning
2x Banefire
4x Chandra's Outrage
4x Galvanic Blast
1x Furnace of Rath
2x Furnace Scamps
4x Incinerate
3x Reverberate

Other cards I thought might be useful:
Artillerize
Goblin Fireslinger
Leyline of Punishment
Cinder Pyromancer
Unstable Footing
Leyline of Lightning
Raging Goblin
Surreal Memoir
Fireblast
Goblin Grenade
Ember Hauler
Urza's Rage
Molten Influence
OverMaster
Demonfire
Arc Trail
Fireball
Cosi's Ravager
Sparkmage Apprentice
Lava Axe
Warstorm Surge
Raid Bombardment
Prodigal Pyromancer

Any suggestions?