My Hand Is On Fire!

by JRE47 on 08 May 2013

Main Deck (61 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (3)


Sorceries (3)

Instants (6)


Artifacts (1)


Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

Channeling my inner bully with this deck. Force the opponent to discard, cause damage. Cause damage, force the opponent to discard. Lose-lose.

How to Play

At its black heart, this deck is your rather typical discard deck, with old "favorites" like Ravenous Rats and Megrim's younger, prettier cousin Liliana's Caress, with cards like Painful Quandary and Shrieking Affliction then causing further suffering when their hand is low. This leaves them with the quandary of playing cards as they draw and trying to outrace the damage being caused by having a small hand, or holding on to a larger hand and running the risk of falling behind and being forced to discard those cards anyway.

The interesting twist here comes from adding in red. This allows obvious inclusions like Blightning and Rakdos's Return, but also some more subtle additions. The first and perhaps most important is Pain Magnification. Combine that with the aforementioned Blightning (discard 3!) or Shrieking Affliction (take that hand of 1 down to 0, please) or Painful Quandry (now really your ONLY option is to discard), and the pain really DOES magnify quickly. Red also allows you to restock your opponent's hand with a fresh batch of cards to discard later with Reforge the Soul and Burning Inquiry (the latter of which forces that discarding immediately).

Creatures here mostly support that overall theme. Along with the Ravenous Rats, you've got Abyssal Nocturnus and Sangromancer reaping benefits from the discarding. Nezumi Shortfang adds more discarding and then flips to punish. Bloodgift Demon is nice big beater which can restock your own hand or the opponent's if you need to punish them with more discard, Shah of Naar Isle is another beater whose drawback is negligible here.

This deck is mean. How many of you out there are into this sort of thing?

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Discard
  • Burn
  • Rakdos

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

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