Purple Rain [Multiplayer Burn]

Commander / EDH* Burn Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Removal/Boardwipe (5)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x By Force
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Star of Extinction

Burn - Repeatable (4)

• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Vial Smasher the Fierce

Draw/Tutors (16)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Windfall

Mana Ramp (12)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Gg (3)

• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Repercussion

Recursion (2)

• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Unearth

Commander (1)

Burn (12)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Breath of Darigaaz
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fall of the Titans
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Inferno
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Skullcrack
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Damage Enablement (11)

• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fire Servant
• 1x Fork
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

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Other (8)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x God-Eternal Kefnet
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Propaganda

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Introduction

This deck has come a decent ways since I started it as my first EDH deck a few months ago (version ~1.0-1.3). It took off especially after some of the necessary feedback from this thread; after that point I began seriously finding different kinds of decks from what I'd already found to learn from, especially ones with mono-Red leanings. I have the decks that proved to be the best inspirations down below.

I recreated my deck from versions before 4.3 with the idea of maining Red while using Black and Blue as the "lubricants" in a well-greased, damage-spitting machine. For a while, I wondered if I was merely continuing to build in Grixis around Kess out of sheer stubbornness; "Why not run mono-Red? Surely I'd have a better time burning." One word: recursion. Kess on the field means my burn spells go twice as far. Multiplayer EDH can easily turn into a game of attrition, hence burn decks running minimal creatures can have a habit of fizzling out after so long. With time, my primary objectives became clear:

1.) Kill everyone before attrition became a concern.

2.) In the event attrition becomes an issue, have a way to close out the game soon enough before the issue worsens. This one might seem redundant given how fast the deck already wants - and needs - to go, but I thought to add it as a form of emphasis on how important this is.

I know how burn decks usually are by nature: great in 1v1, not so much when attention is split, and especially not when there's at least a total of 120 life to burn across three players. I don't think my paranoia about not fizzling out in multiplayer settings was entirely unjustified, but time and further testing will tell.

Strats and Combos

Coming soon? Maybe?

Previous Versions

Big jump in versions can happen either because enough of the deck's functionality shifted to where it didn't make sense to go from, say, 4.4.2 to 4.4.3, or there's a draft I wrote up irl and never published online. Versions marked with an asterisk are versions that were once published on this exact page and then overwritten by the next version above it (also marked via asterisk/other marking).

4.5.3 Current version Based off of [cEDH Burn] Light Up the Night

4.5.2

4.5 Previous version. Name change from "Purple Rain" to "Light Up the Night".

4.4.2

4.4.1

4.4 *

4.3.4

4.3.3

3.3.2

3.3.1

3.1

3.0

2.0

~1.0-1.3 I forget the exact version. My process for cataloging versions wasn't as refined early on.

Big Inspirations

As of 4.5:

"Mizzex Izzet Burn" by SufferFromEDHD.

As of sometime around 4.3.4:

"By Fire Be Purged" by Warpath251

"All I Want for Christmas is All of Your Stuff!!!" by Enral

"Mono-Red Burn in EDH" by ArtyomTheCat

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Light Up the Night [Multiplayer Burn]