Spiteburn Awakener (Modern Budget Burn Combo)

Modern Aggro BR (Rakdos) Budget Burn Discard Elementals Haste Primer Sacrifice Toughness Matters

TheMeadiator

Creature (20)

• 4x Flamekin Harbinger
• 4x Thunderkin Awakener
• 4x Ball Lightning
• 4x Lightning Skelemental
• 4x Spitebellows

Instant (3)

• 3x Lightning Bolt

Sorcery (17)

• 3x Bone Shards
• 3x Infernal Plunge
• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4x Unearth
• 3x Cathartic Reunion

Land (20)

• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 10x Mountain
• 2x Swamp

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Fulminator Mage
• 2x Incandescent Soulstoke
• 2x Ingot Chewer

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Feed the Swarm

Instant (4)

• 2x Surgical Extraction
• 2x Temur Battle Rage

Land (2)

• 2x Bojuka Bog

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Igneous Pouncer

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UPDATE: After a bit of playtesting and research into the modern space, I've retooled this deck to make it faster and be more responsive to decks in meta. It's still a budget deck, but should be on the more competitive side now!

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This is my first crack at a modern burn deck using budget cards and fun combos! I thought of this idea when I encountered a combo in my EDH deck Elemental Rage - Exploding Tokens!.

The general idea is to toss a few big boys Spitebellows, Lightning Skelemental, or Ball Lightning into the garbage with Cathartic Reunion or Bone Shards, or by simply evoking or hard casting them. Then we reanimate them with Thunderkin Awakener, and swing for big hits - if they die, who cares! We'll just reanimate them next turn.

The real hero of the deck is Flamekin Harbinger who tutors for any of our creatures, and can be brought back from the bin herself with Thunderkin. That being said, the deck's linchpin is Thunderkin Awakener, so if they get axed, use Unearth to get them back in play and swinging. If Thunderkin is extracted/exiled from the deck, it certainly slows us down, but the deck is still quite aggressive without them.

The ideal play here is this

• Turn 1: Mountain + Flamekin Harbinger
• Turn 2: Mountain + Infernal Plunge sacking Harbinger into + Cathartic Reunion discarding a big boy + Thunderkin Awakener then swinging and reanimating the boy you just pitched for 6-7 damage.
• Turn 3: Swamp + More swings, burn, control
• Turn 4: Hopefully death

By nuking our opponent's creatures with Spitebellows and Bone Shards, controlling their hand a bit with Lightning Skelemental and Inquisition of Kozilek, and burning them for direct damage with Lightning Bolt, it should leave them open for the kill in 4-5 turns. Theoretically, anyway.

Real world playtest coming soon! Any comments, suggestions, or alternate budget cards are welcomed and appreciated!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #7 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #3 position in Modern 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern BR (Rakdos) 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Burn 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 6 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.08
Folders	All My Decks, Favorites from other Planeswalkers, Elemental Balls, Modern