Heartless Hidetsugu's Rite to Burn

Modern* Aggro Burn Competitive Jank Mono-Red

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Instant (16)

• 4x Gut Shot
• 4x Hidetsugu's Second Rite
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Manamorphose

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Faithless Looting
• 4x Lava Spike

Creature (14)

• 2x Grim Lavamancer
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide
• 4x Street Wraith

Artifact (4)

• 4x Serum Powder

Land (18)

• 4x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 6x Mountain
• 4x Sunscorched Desert
• 4x Wooded Foothills

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Sideboard

Instant (3)

• 3x Guttural Response

Artifact (4)

• 4x Relic of Progenitus

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Shattering Spree

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Blood Sun

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Sometimes burn has a hard time bringing players down to 0, so I though maybe bringing them down to 10 would be easier.

Gameplan

Deal them enough damage so that there life total is 10 as a Hidetsugu's Second Rite is resolving.

How to Get There

The hardest challenge is that once your opponents are privy to what your doing, they can use their fetch and shock lands to adjust their life total in response to Hidetsugu's Second Rite. The best scenario you can generate is targeting them in response to their fetch, then use some other burn to set them to 10.

Card Discussion

Burn/Damage

• Grim Lavamancer - It's nice that he can either swing for 1, or exile for 2 damage, that modularity is very important in a deck that wants your opponent at a specific life total.

• Gut Shot - Free 1 damage. Might cut if the one damage doesn't matter all that much or if the life loss is too severe.

• Hidetsugu's Second Rite - The wincon. Can only deal damage if your opponent is at ten, so make sure they can't adjust it in response.

• Lava Spike - Immediate 3 damage. Run over Rift Bolt to ensure damage is dealt when it's needed.

• Lightning Bolt - The original and most versatile burn spell.

• Monastery Swiftspear - Being able to use the prowess to fine-tune their life total is great.

• Sunscorched Desert - Free ping. Might get cut if the colorless mana becomes too much of a problem.

Card Draw/Dig

• Faithless Looting - With all the dead draws we can accumulate, this is a great out.

• Manamorphose - Used more as free card draw than a mana-fixer. I suppose it could help you cast a Street Wraith if you really wanted.

• Serum Powder - Used to exile non-Hidetsugu's Second Rite cards out of the deck. Be conscientious of how many non-fetch lands you exile.

• Street Wraith - Turns your 60-card deck into a 56-card deck.

Mana/Lands

• Grove of the Burnwillows - Used to help mitigate an opponent's self life-loss. Be aware that using this land for red mana forces your opponent to gain life, whether you want them to or not.

• Manamorphose - Not as much of a ritual/fixer as it is a cantrip.

• Mountain - Basic lands ftw.

• Simian Spirit Guide - An extra mana for blazing fast turns.

• Sunscorched Desert - Used for an un-counter-able ping. Might get cut if red mana is too important.

• Wooded Foothills - Explicitly used for deck-thinning.

Sideboard

• Blood Sun - Very exciting spoiler from the new set. I like that it replaces itself. More importantly, opponents can't adjust their life with their fetch and shock lands while this is out. Notably makes Wooded Foothills a dead draw.

• Chandra, Torch of Defiance - For the grindier games, included because I have them sitting around.

• Guttural Response - An answer to those pesky blue control decks, also devastate an end step Gifts Ungiven from storm players.

• Relic of Progenitus - Marquee grave hate, chosen because it draws a card, it's colorless, and it doesn't turn of Faithless Looting while out (I'm talking to you Grafdigger's Cage).

• Shattering Spree - Artifact hate. Might need to add more if affinity/blue steel becomes more relevant.

Suggestions welcome.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 2 Mythic Rares 18 - 4 Rares 24 - 9 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.14
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance