Comments on: On Fire: Understanding the New Burn https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/on-fire-understanding-new-burn/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zach Stackhouse https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/on-fire-understanding-new-burn/#comment-2129868 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:22:14 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=19567#comment-2129868 Been playing burn for about a year, and last weekend I took the deck to a six round swiss event going 4-2 while missing the cut. I liked Skewer in general, but I did find myself in a game where I ended up with three in hand simultaneously. That’s pretty awkward, but I also realize the odds of that happening are low, and I did get some high-powered turns unleashing three burn spells early on to put an opponent on the back foot. It is risk/reward, but not as much of a gamble as some other deckbuilding options in the format. I’d argue it becomes last in, first out among bolts when sideboarding.

Light Up the Stage has held zero appeal to me. It is the source of constant debates with other burn players, but my stance is that any time it gives me one burn spell I would have preferred LUTS just be a burn spell to fire off that turn. If it gives me two, odds are I would have preferred drawing one instead and the second the next turn, because I am often strapped for mana as such that I would not cast bolt, then spectacle LUTS, then get two more spells I can use that turn. Some people think it is a source of card advantage or an enabler, but burn is just…burn. It’s greatest tool is pure efficiency, and trying to circumvent its weakness reduces that efficiency.

Side note, while I wouldn’t call it a police deck, it is interesting how it has game against so many decks people hate/call for bans in infect, tron, storm, and lantern.

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