I'm trying to bring the deck to 60 cards (Red Black Burnish)

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Posted on Sept. 15, 2016, 10:16 p.m. by TheMountainLion

Some things I'm trying to decide between are:

*Bump in the Night or Pillar of Flame (If I choose to keep in Satyr Firedancer the choice should be obvious)

*Pyre Hound or Bloodfire Enforcers

*Devil's Play or Ravaging Blaze

*Butcher's Glee or Dark Dabbling or Wail of the Nim

*I'm thinking of not using Lightning Bolt in favor of any of the 2CMC instant or sorcery cards (too many to list) that deal at least 3 damage to save on $.

Other cards I'm trying to decide whether to leave in or take out are Satyr Firedancer, Howl of the Horde, Dash Hopes, Brimstone Volley, Searing Blaze, and Mizzium Mortars.

(You may notice all the cards mentioned here are at x2, which is so I can see which ones I'm thinking about)

Any and all thoughts are welcome (I realize the mana is low but I thought the deck could pull it off?)

P.S. I'm tying to keep the deck at $30 and under, but it NEEDS to be $40 and under.

THANKS EVERYONE!!!

GlistenerAgent says... #2

Note: Firedancer and Bump are not friends.

September 15, 2016 10:27 p.m.

TheMountainLion says... #3

I know, that's why if I included one I probably wouldn't include the other. But stranger things have happened.

September 15, 2016 10:30 p.m.

EXCALIBRAHHHH says... #4

Bump is good but has less utility than Pillar. No bolt = no good. Bolt is the spell in red. There is a reason why every creature and planeswalker in modern is put against the 'bolt test'.

September 15, 2016 10:47 p.m.

sylvannos says... #5

I think you need more 4-ofs and should go straight burn. You have all the pieces, just in awkward amounts. I'd probably reduce your 60 to something like:

4x Monastery Swiftspear
4x Young Pyromancer
2x Guttersnipe

4x Blightning
4x Bump in the Night
4x Devil's Play
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Brimstone Volley
4x Burst Lightning
4x Searing Blaze

4x Dragonskull Summit
4x Smoldering Marsh
2x Swamp
12x Mountain

Then I'd swap out:

-2x Guttersnipe
-4x Devil's Play
-4x Brimstone Volley
-4x Burst Lightning
-3x Searing Blaze
-2x Swamp
-8x Mountain

for:

+1x Grim Lavamancer
+4x Rift Bolt
+4x Lava Spike
+4x Eidolon of the Great Revel
+4x Skullcrack
+4x Blood Crypt
+4x Bloodstained Mire
+2x any red fetchlands (so Arid Mesa, Wooded Foothills, or Scalding Tarn)

Your sideboard should be something like:

2+ Smash to Smithereens
0-4 Relic of Progenitus/Leyline of the Void/Tormod's Crypt
3x Searing Blaze
1+ Forked Bolt
4x Leyline of Punishment/Rain of Gore
1+ Flames of the Blood Hand
0-4 Rakdos Charm
0-2 Self-Inflicted Wound
0-2 Sudden Shock

Other cards that work really well in R/x Burn are:

September 16, 2016 8:44 a.m. Edited.

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