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Hello my fellow arsonist. If you are looking for a budget mono-red burn deck then you are completely right here(under 70$ (or 15 tix) on TCG). Burn your foe in easy 4 turns to zero life and leave only ash behind you. This deck is inspired by the great Professor of the Tolarian Community College. Check out his video on youtube Blast in with Red Deck Wins! His version of this deck can be found here: $30 Modern Mono Red and Modern Mono Red! I was netdecking his deck but soon I was not satisfied with his card choices and did my own version. I proudly present you my deck called A burnt child dreads the fire. If you want to play competetive with a burn deck you should check out following thread on MTG Salvation.
Deck structure
Burn is a deck that uses efficient creatures and red instant and sorcery spells to deal direct damage to your opponent in an effort to end the game as quickly as possible using little to no disruption. It is the perfect example of what happens when speed meets consistency. You can win as early in turn 4 and even faster if you got a perfect hand. The most optimal opening hand usually consists of 2 lands always mulligan if you got 4 or more lands. After you have decided to keep your opening hand, you'll want to lead off with a creature(Spark Elemental, Monastery Swiftspear). If not, you want to get rid of your least useful spells first (Lava Spike, Rift Bolt ) so that you can save your Lightning Bolt's for removal should you need it. The next 2-3 turns are all about applying pressure while not overextending your burn. Once you get them down within striking distance, finish them off cleanly in one turn. Remember if you have lethal, you have to go for it, don't worry about if they have countermagic or not, if they have it, they have it but the longer you wait the more chances you give them to dig back into the game.
More usefull information on how to play burn can be found here! I copied most of it from there. But this should give you a nice overview for this deck.
19x Mountains is your choice for a budget mono-red deck. Not much to say to basic lands. There is no need for any fancy fetch or shock lands. Keep your money. Only downside to play without fetches is that it's hard to fuel Grim Lavamancer (pretty expensive card) or to get landfall for Searing Blaze but don't worry we won't run this cards in this deck! The best part is that Blood Moon does nothing to this deck. The great value to run only basic lands!
Got some inspiration from the following deck Islands. Pretty strong!
4x Spark Elemental: Not many people run this but it will keep your mana curve low. Good in your opening hand. Can deal 3 damage for . Bad when you top deck later.
4x Hellspark Elemental : Unearth makes him strong. Possible 6 damage for one card.
4x Keldon Marauders : It always deals 2 damage and could deal 5 damage.
4x Monastery Swiftspear: One of the best one drop creature ever in red burn. Prowess is her strength and she beats the shit out everything! For every noncreature spell you cast her damage increases by one.
A total count of 16 creatures are in this burn deck. This should be a solid base. The creatures should be used first and later you can direct cast the spells on your opponent.
4x Lightning Bolt + 4x Rift Bolt + 4x Lava Spike: Just your best 12 cards in your deck. The value for to deal 3 damage is very strong. Always run this cards in your burn deck no matter what.
1x Shard Volley: I only run one because it can easy cripple your mana pool. It could be used as the last spell to win the game.
4x Skullcrack: Life gain could ruin your game. It could be usefull that damage can't be prevented.
3x Searing Blood : The reason why we won't run Searing Blaze is that we don't have any fetch lands to use it real potential and it nearly got the same effect.
4x Magma Jet: The scry 2 makes it incredible. You can predict the next cards you draw.
1x Molten Vortex : I love this card. This deck uses 19 Mountains and you only need at maximum 3 lands out and burn the rest on your enemy. Some could argue to remove this card and go up to 20 Mountains but I'm still testing if it could work. :P
First of all I am not the most experienced player and you got to choose your own sideboard on the needs of your local players. Here are just some few good cards that you could use.
Molten Rain: Good against Tron or multicolored and the 2 direct damage is just sweet!
Rending Volley : Good against Meerfolk or Twin. I don't really like this because it can't deal damage direct to your opponent.
Leyline of Punishment: Great in your opening hand if you play against Soul Sisters or something with huge life gain.
Smash to Smithereens: Destroy an artifact and deal 3 damage. Just a great card against Spellskite.
Currently(21. September 2015) you can buy this deck with the sideboard under 65 bucks on TCG. I think this is pretty affordable for nearly everyone. The only real expensive cards are Monastery Swiftspear, Rift Bolt , Lightning Bolt and Lava Spike around 2-3$ each. This cards are your key cards and you need them for sure. All other cards should be pretty cheap and burn the rich players!
I just want to give input to some cards that won't fit in this burn deck(only my opinion).
Searing Blaze: Without fetches you can't use it full potential. Still a strong card but I prefer to run Searing Blood instead in a mono-red deck with only Mountains.
Miracle-Spells like Thunderous Wrath and Bonfire of the Damned are too unreliable. If you got this card in your opening hand it is complete useless and you are forced to mulligan. Even if you only got 1 Thunderous Wrath in your deck the odds to get it in your opening hand is 11,7% (thats like every 9th game) and this is just too high. If you don't start the game you have to draw a card(now you have no mana to pay the miracle cost) and the chance to get the single Wrath is now 13.3% (thats like every 8th game). If you draw it now you can't mulligan and got a useless card in your hand!
Ball Lightning: Is just too slow. Too high CMC for the unreliable 6 damage.
Lightning Berserker : I think it is just to slow for this format. For each it can deal 1 more damage. The perfect burn card deals 3 damage for . The dash ability is just not efficient enough. It sure could work but not a card I would favour.
Thank you very much for your time. Have a great day! Feel free to comment.
Best regards,
SuddenlyRust
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| Date added | 8 years |
| Last updated | 8 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 1 - 4 Rares 19 - 7 Uncommons 21 - 4 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.66 |
| Folders | Mono Red, My way into Modern, Standard Decks, Maybe Decks, Want, Red decks, Deck ideas, RDW , Budget Decks, Budget Modern |
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