Burn The Land

by Kaladin302 on 13 June 2017

Main Deck (60 cards)

Instants (10)


Artifacts (4)


Enchantments (2)


Land (22)

Sideboard (20 cards)

Sorceries (12)

Instants (8)

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Deck Description

...and boil the sea.

This is an attempt at a budgeted landburn deck. The idea is to stop your opponent's growing power by turn 3 through the use of destroying their land.

Disclaimer: Any landburn deck is the kind of deck you either play against REALLY good friends or someone who you utterly despise. You won't be making new friends playing this dingus of a deck.

How to Play

The main issue with building a landburn deck is the cost of landburn being somewhat hefty. 3CMC at a minimum sorcery cost means that your opponent has the opportunity to get around three lands out or even more if they're playing green. Because of this I've added three red ramp cards: RITE OF FLAME only costs 1CMC and gives you an extra mana every time you play one, but is unfortunately relegated to sorcery. PYRETIC RITUAL is an instant for 2CMC and gives you three red mana, and lastly SEETHING SONG gives you five red mana for only 3CMC at instant speed.

Now I know red ramp sucks and seems really trivial to try and do considering it usually only gives you 1 extra mana to work with, but getting just that one extra turn really is helpful, and by the time you're able to cast SEETHING SONG you can do anything. Hell, with two SEETHING SONGs and a cycled DECREE OF ANNIHILATION you can destroy all lands while only controlling 3 mountains! While we're on the topic of DECREE OF ANNIHILATION, the cycle ability is really the only one we're looking to do to combo with DINGUS EGG, but in a pinch you can reset the game. However if you are squaring off against blue then swap in OBLITERATE and find somewhere to drop in some BOILs.

As far as building this on a budget goes, the most pesky thing here is the LIGHTNING BOLT playset which jacks the price up almost 10 dollars depending on the quality of the card itself. Swap it out with 4 SHOCKs if you wanna spend a bit less money. MOLTEN RAIN also raises the price a bit. Switch in STONE RAIN to save some dough.

FUN FIRST HAND:
Just ran a little test. Started with two RITE OF FLAMEs and a SHIVAN WUMPAS. Played a mountain, then played 1 RITE to get 2 mana, played the second RITE to get 3 mana making a total of 4 mana, then played the WUMPAS. My friend had to destroy his only land on turn 1 haha

UPDATE 6/22/2017
Added PRICE OF GLORY which I had not known about.

Deck Tags

  • Burn
  • Land Destruction
  • Budget
  • Mono Red

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

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