Eidolon of the Great Revel

Asked by 9-lives 2 years ago

Eidolon of the Great Revel why is this card in burn decks? doesn't it basically do damage to decks with burn cards like Lightning Helix? Wouldn't if I had both of these cards wouldn't I receive damage from Eidolon of the Great Revel by casting Lightning Helix?

Polaris says... #1

Yes, but burn decks don't care about their life totals. The burn deck's goal is to remove the opponent's life total before the opponent can get in a position to deal damage back. This makes opponents still take damage off of early game creatures and counterspells, and the likeā€”for a burn deck, taking 2 damage to cast Lightning Bolt is absolutely worth the opponent taking 2 damage to counter it.

January 14, 2022 11:23 p.m.

There's only one number a burn player needs to care about: their opponent's life total. Anything else is just a distraction, because it takes a deck's full attention to burn your opponent from 20 to 0.

If you waste a Lightning Bolt on an opponent's Tarmogoyf (old-school style!), that's essentially three life that your opponent gained from you not using the bolt on them.

All that is to say that when piloting burn, you'll take whatever sources of good burn you can get--because burning a player entirely out of the game is hard if you don't. And sometimes those sources of burn happen to hit you too.

January 15, 2022 12:05 a.m.

DragonWolf420 says... Accepted answer #3

you probably won't even be "able" to bolt a goyf, but if you can then you probably should. wouldn't call it a "waste" when that goyf is about to become bigger than your burn spells can handle while smacking you for 4 or 5 damage every turn.

anywho, this isn't really a "rules" question and could have been asked in a more generic forum.

January 16, 2022 3:07 p.m.

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