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I agree. It´s a work in progress and a draft version. I´ve started to implement some card draw and experiement with Ball Lightning as a finisher and removal-on-a-stick because Marauders are awesome on an empty board, but no so with creatures out. BL is not the best thing in town, being 3 Shocks on legs, yet at a point where opponent is down to 5'sh Life, any cards that hits more than a bolt/GG/Revel, saves drawing more cards.
I'm back to magic after a hiatus. In any case I want to share a Rakdos Burn brew I´ve started to test with some success.
Here´s the geist of the deck:
[deck]Hellburn[/deck]
The plan is to be even more agressive and ignore the taxing and slower elements of Burn decks in lieu of critters that Lunges well. It´s not immeditaly apparent, but the Postmortem Lunge and the sacrifical creatures have a psychological effect of their own. What happens when you play these one ofs is that the opponent gets even more stressed than by say Lavamancer or Eidolon. The reason being they have more control over if and when they answer them. The critters here are mostly "Bolts on legs" and psychologically averse to block because of the trampling. This is because of a human prediliction for loss aversion (check Kahneman and Tversky on this) over possible gain. By extension they go all in attack with all their own creatures because blocking is a "loss" and the stress over (almost) every play I make is to the head. Add to that that in the majority of the cases I have no permanents on the table making their mind say "there´s no loss in attacking because he has no threats on the table". The end result is that blockers are very few and mostly non existent.
It´s here that Postmortem Lunge excels and turns into a Snapcaster hitting creatures for
. Spark becomes an extra Bolt, Vexing Devil Another 4 for [mana]r[/mana] (bonkers T2 on an empty board) and Keldon Marauders a 5 damage for [mana]1r[/mana]. In an meta where people insists on packing Fetches this often calculates into saving a burn spell in my experience so far, which is all Burn.dec is asking for imho.
Here´s the geist of the deck:
[deck]Hellburn[/deck]
The plan is to be even more agressive and ignore the taxing and slower elements of Burn decks in lieu of critters that Lunges well. It´s not immeditaly apparent, but the Postmortem Lunge and the sacrifical creatures have a psychological effect of their own. What happens when you play these one ofs is that the opponent gets even more stressed than by say Lavamancer or Eidolon. The reason being they have more control over if and when they answer them. The critters here are mostly "Bolts on legs" and psychologically averse to block because of the trampling. This is because of a human prediliction for loss aversion (check Kahneman and Tversky on this) over possible gain. By extension they go all in attack with all their own creatures because blocking is a "loss" and the stress over (almost) every play I make is to the head. Add to that that in the majority of the cases I have no permanents on the table making their mind say "there´s no loss in attacking because he has no threats on the table". The end result is that blockers are very few and mostly non existent.
It´s here that Postmortem Lunge excels and turns into a Snapcaster hitting creatures for
. Spark becomes an extra Bolt, Vexing Devil Another 4 for [mana]r[/mana] (bonkers T2 on an empty board) and Keldon Marauders a 5 damage for [mana]1r[/mana]. In an meta where people insists on packing Fetches this often calculates into saving a burn spell in my experience so far, which is all Burn.dec is asking for imho.