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I just started playing magic again and the first deck I decided to make was a burn deck. Please comment and help me improve it. Also know that this is a deck I have all the cards for which is why it may not be completely optimal in having 4 of this or that.
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It looks to me like this is a burn deck that will either burn or make your opponent choose which i love burn. There are a lot of awesome burn cards out there. I think since you made this with cards you had on hand its not that bad. Better start then i had playing. I like decks that don't obbsess over cards like having four of it though sometimes its needed. This looks pretty good and i think it will get better over time
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I'm not a big fan of burn, because it's hard to draw If you consider your average damage per spell is likely to be less than two (especially once you average in countermagic, needing to burn creatures, etc), you need to fire off more than ten burn spells somehow. That's very difficult to manage, so burn is rarely an efficient sole strategy. A creature-based attack plan, with burn support to clear out blockers, is usually more competitive and successful. Consider decks like Legacy Goblins (a creature aggro deck with some burn support vs. blockers) versus Legacy Sligh (a straight burn aggro deck). Goblins does passably well, Sligh always bombs out. If you changed just one thing about this deck, I would remove Book Burning and replace it with four of Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and I'd swap out Impending Disaster for Why no Book Burning? To a novice, the card looks amazing. But any sensible opponent will let you mill them six, since your overall gameplan won't deck them -- there's no way a burn deck survives long enough to deck an opponent. So the Book Burning doesn't really help you (except against opponents who really don't know any better, or opponents who rely heavily on weird top-of-deck tutoring effects but don't run countermagic -- and you shouldn't build your deck around those marginal opponents). Book Burning basically says "spend two mana, and maybe you'll catch their best card in the top six cards, or maybe their best card was seven cards down and now becomes the card they draw next." Not a winning use of mana.
Oops, I forgot to mention I'd swap out Impending Disaster for a Fireball. Also -- work on getting four Lightning Bolt, and substitute it for nearly any other spell in the deck. Three damage for one mana is exactly the kind of early thump a sligh-burn deck desperately needs.