Quote from Insidious »Thanks for putting the effort into an amazing primer. I'm a new burn player and this has been extremely helpful. I'm definitely a converted anti-burn player, there are so many lines of play and intricacies that you don't see from the other side. I never thought I'd enjoy playing burn this much.
I'm glad you found it useful. I don't get much time to do updates anymore, and it used to be much more active here but it fell off after they said MTGS was going to close.
Quote from mithrios11 »what do you think about lurrus of the dream-den ?
it's basically free, an 8th card every match for 1 sideboard card less.
I think it can replace a Kor Firewalker pretty easily if you play those. I'm not sure how much value I place on having a 3/2 Lifelink for 3 whenever you want it. Obviously it's an 8th card in your hand and that's something, but I'm not convinced it's as phenomenal as some people make it out to be. It's irrelevant in a lot of situations (ie. you cast it and lose anyway), but if you're on T6 and drawing for burn spells and draw a land, you can at least a 3/2 Lifelink and maybe buy a turn. I wouldn't place much value on the rest of the text and I wouldn't play Seal of Fire/Vexing Devil with the goal of re-casting them. Obviously you're guaranteed to have it available when you're at 4 lands, but I wouldn't want to play sub-par cards along the way.
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