A 1 drop Wizard which turns into a better Goblin Guide with some spells in the graveyard. Not with this deck, but I won a match against UW Control when they had double Timely Reinforcements and triple Absorb just because of the third mode off of The Flame of Keld so take that as you will. I’m not sure if that would be better than trying to max out the 1 drops, but having all your spells being as cheap as possible is where I’d lean. Lurrus of the Dream-Den; Yorion, Sky Nomad; There are of course many more, but these are a few of the more powerful options you can play alongside Kolvori in Standard, most of which are on-color. Lurrus is an extremely powerful play if you have the time and mana to invest in it, and single handedly won my match against Monoblack Aggro when my opponent was unable to remove it. The matchup is really going to hinge upon how your hand lines up against the opponent’s as if they have multiple Burning Trees or a lot of Collected Company, this can be really hard. Lurrus of the Dream-Den; Monastery Swiftspear; Soul-Scar Mage; META% 3.6% (19) Tabletop $ 149 MTGO 100 tix Ghitu Lavarunner. Albeit, this was back when Companions were still broken, but I still think Lurrus Burn has some real legs! One of the biggest disadvantages of Burn naturally is creatures that outscale your burn spells, especially if they’re low cost such as Lovestruck Beast. They may have any converted mana cost. Lurrus of the Dream-Den. You’re really going to act like a Control deck in this matchup as you only care about the Cat loop and Mayhem Devil. More often than not just a Sorcery speed Lightning Bolt. I destroyed Gruul and Monoblack Aggro pretty handily and died to Jeskai Control when I drew way too many lands in both games. One card difference in the main and a slightly different board. Have a great day! If you have multiple Bomat Couriers out and want to crack them, hold Full Control and after your sacrifice one, sacrifice the other before the first Courier’s trigger resolves. With the downtick of Fatal Push, it’s really Alchemist’s time to shine. At MTGGoldfish, we value your privacy. Goldspan Temur Midrange Kaldheim Standard Deck Guide. Please take a moment to review them and accept to continue. If you enjoy playing a competitive deck that gives you a lot of choices and has a chance to beat functionally anything, this is a great choice for you. After the Companion change, I figured there wouldn’t be a point to play Lurrus and normal Burn felt a bit lackluster. Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. There’s a few reasons to play Lurrus Burn, but two stand out to me. As I said, super tiny changes. Burn can live or die by it’s land drops, but with mana sinks like Ramunap Ruins and Lurrus, being mana screwed is more likely to kill you then flood. Since all of your spells are so cheap, it is very easy to empty out your hand in a few turns and cracking this to draw a few cards later is unbelievably valuable. However, that was more a function of how fast I was winning a lot of my games rather than Lurrus being bad. Lurrus of the Dream-Den; All That Glitters; Alseid of Life's Bounty; META% 4.0% (21) Tabletop $ 174 MTGO 68 tix Lurrus of the Dream-Den. However, I think the flexibility to hit anything rather than only Red creatures is worth it. If you can stop your opponent from killing you with a Mayhem Devil, the cat loop itself is rather manageable and you can outpace their drain with Thermo Alchemist and the like. A lot of people tend to go for Viashino Pyromancer in this slot, reasonably so, but they don’t understand the power of Thermo. You could board in Soul-Guide Lantern or Roiling Vortex as well, but I think those are generally too narrow. We've updated our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The Next Arena Open and Strixhaven Qualifier Weekend Format is Kaldheim Sealed, New Secret Lair Announces Upcoming Uro Ban in Historic, 2021.01.01 Hotfix: Glittering Frost Bug Fixed, 2021.01.00 Patch Notes – Kaldheim Game Update, Temur Song Kaldheim Standard Deck Guide: Combo and Midrange All in One, Izzet Snow Kaldheim Standard Deck Guide: Move Over Rogues, There’s a New King of Tempo, White Weenie Kaldheim Standard Deck Guide: Punish the Greedy Decks. One, a lot of people love playing Burn, and if you’re one of those people then I don’t need to convince you. Generally Grim Lavamancer is excellent in Burn, but since we’re playing Lurrus, exiling cards from the yard is really not that great as exiling permanents hurts Lurrus and exiling spells hurts Lavarunner. R 226 $6.07 $3.43 $5.99 View. My expectations are high that we'll be able to build around Kolvori, as the power level makes it worth it. MTG Arena Zone © 2021. White is the clear winner with the Fast Land and Pathway where Rakdos has neither of those. WR WR. If you like my content and want to see more of it, you can check me out on Twitch! MTG Arena Zone is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Popular Historic Magic: the Gathering decks with prices from the latest tournament results. If Skullcrack was legal, I’d happily play that instead, but Roiling Vortex is still quite reasonable with it’s constant ping. It can be difficult to know what cards to exile to, You have 4 different one drops and you want to lead on a different one depending on the situation. I would put it around 50/50 if you focus on accruing as much card advantage as possible, play around sweepers, and they don’t get a fast Uro on the board. For when you need more removal or a way to kill artifacts. However, if you land a Soul-Scar Mage and have a bunch of Burn spells into a way to draw cards, this matchup can be easy. Although Thermo doesn’t deal any damage when it enters the battlefield, it can deal so much damage so quickly and blocks reasonably well to boot. How did I do? Explore the best Paper and MTGO decks of the … Today I’m writing about a deck that’s near and dear to my heart as it’s the first Historic deck I ever played! Per usual, I always have to give a deck a full 3 matches before I make any changes to it. At first I really didn’t see the point of Lurrus as I felt I could never bring it to my hand. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Thien Nguyen take his iteration of Lurrus Burn to the Zendikar Rising Championship. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. I really like leveraging the plethora of 1 mana spells like Thien did overall as it pairs the best with Lurrus. It has Prowess, the Wizard creature type, and turns all your Burn spells into Wither spells. If you are a resident of California, you have the right under the CCPA to opt out of the sale of personal information to third parties. Lurrus doesn’t care about instant and sorcery cards in your starting deck. Furthermore, with Sultai starting to really go up on Aether Gust because of Gruul’s prominence, more expensive Red spells have felt really bad recently. 4/17/2020: If a card in a player’s deck has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. If you are facing the Food version, Baffling End becomes less relevant and Roiling Vortex may be better as they also play Gilded Goose. Since we want to play Lurrus, we need white or black lands to cast it. In that vein, this matchup is way better than most people give it credit for, but obviously it’s not amazing. Updated January 17, 2021. That being said, a repeatable Shock effect for one mana when you have a decent sized graveyard is obscenely powerful and not to be underestimated, even if there are downsides to using it. Goblins has been on a major downswing so Rampaging Ferocidon feels a lot less important. The second, more surprisingly, is that it is pretty much 50/50 against most archetypes. Lead on. At worst, 3 mana for a Burn spell isn’t too terrible. However, the first iteration of Lurrus Burn played Burning Tree Emissary alongside Viashino Pyromancer, max Lightning Strike, and 3 The Flame of Keld. I Agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Companion: Lurrus of the Dream-Den. At worst, you can play this, attack, and sacrifice for a psuedo cycle when you are already hellbent. Thien played Chandra’s Defeat, but I think Redcap Melee is generally better with the rise of Gruul. All rights reserved. MTGGoldfish, Inc. is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast LLC. You’ll get all the card without having to discard your hand twice! You don’t need or want too much creature removal in the matchup as this will mostly be a race between you burning them out and them casting a relevant Muxus. You’d also be surprised what spots you can get out of with the 3rd mode of the Flame of Keld. Ever have your 2 lander turn into an 8 lander? The only extremely small downside about Soul-Scar Mage is that it has anti-synergy with The Flame of Keld where the buff from it doesn’t work if you’re pointing Burn spells at creatures. My personal information may be used for the purposes defined in the privacy policy. I’m actually not the biggest fan of Lightning Strike and generally want to limit the amount of 2 mana Burn in a deck, but it still does the job. R R. Ghitu Lavarunner; Light Up the Stage; … All Rights Reserved. The only advantage Chandra’s Defeat has is that it kills a Chandra, Torch of Defiance after it pluses, or a Muxus when there’s a lord out. It’s not like Lantern is an amazing effect for this deck, but with Lurrus, this can be a repeatable graveyard hate card that some decks will have an extremely hard time beating. Like Sacrifice, you’re going to play the Control role in this matchup. Right now, I think so. Legacy is a constructed format and therefore adheres to the following constructed rules: Minimum of sixty cards; No maximum deck size; Up to fifteen cards in your sideboard, if used Lurrus of the Dream-Den (Extended Art) R 355 $12.54 $6.37 $12.27 View. In a Burn deck that plays a huge amount of 1 drops, this will almost always be 1 mana draw 2 cards, which is obviously great. Thank you for reading! Bomat Courier is insanely good in this deck, and Flame operates in a similar function. I’ve heard a lot of people not enjoying Historic as the matchups can be extremely polarizing, but Burn doesn’t really have that issue for the most part. Once you can get down to no cards in hand, you can get really good value out of this card and it’s the perfect 1 of as drawing 2 in the same hand feels really bad. Although Burn is traditionally viewed as purely an aggro deck, and an easy one at that, a lot of people write it off as one dimensional or bad when they try it for the first time. Hello everyone! Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. Let’s see where I landed. Robert "DoggertQBones" Lee is a streamer and high ranked Arena player. However, as long as you’re playing with that in mind, that interaction should very rarely be relevant. Lurrus is an extremely powerful play if you have the time and mana to invest in it, … See our privacy policy. All original content on this page is © 2012-2021 MTGGoldfish, Inc. and may not be used or reproduced without consent. Another amazing inclusion that has recently blessed red mages, Soul-Scar Mage literally does it all. At first I really didn’t see the point of Lurrus as I felt I could never bring it to my hand. Mono Red Obosh Kaldheim Standard Deck Guide: Who Needs Embercleave? He has one GP Top 8, has 3-0d 3 professional draft pods, and loves writing and teaching! With that, I would classify this as another 50/50 matchup. It’s easy to keep everything but a Muxus off the board so keep killing their Lords while you beat them to death. Lurrus of the Dream-Den / 夢の巣のルールス (1)(白/黒)(白/黒) 伝説のクリーチャー — 猫(Cat) ナイトメア(Nightmare) 相棒 ― あなたの開始時のデッキに入っている各パーマネント・カードが、それぞれ点数で見たマナ・コストが2以下であること。 Thermo-Alchemist is a pet card of mine that is absolutely killer in this deck. 3 Apostle of Purifying Light 3 Fatal Push 1 Hushbringer 1 Light of Hope 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den 2 Soul-Guide Lantern 4 Thoughtseize Deal Another Hand. 夢の巣のルールス/Lurrus of the Dream-Den（白黒） 深海の破滅、ジャイルーダ/Gyruda, Doom of Depths（青黒） 呪文追い、ルーツリー/Lutri, the Spellchaser（青赤） 獲物貫き、オボシュ/Obosh, the Preypiercer（黒赤） 集めるもの、ウモーリ/Umori, the Collector（黒緑） All emails include an unsubscribe link. However, like all my guides, don’t be afraid to experiment and use this as a launching point, not a rigid guideline. With 10 Wizards, this will more often than not be your best Burn spell. Rent unlimited decks and cards at your leisure for one monthly price. Hazard is really good in a deck like Burn as it’s a land in a pinch or a mediocre Burn spell otherwise! You may opt-out at any time. 4/17/2020: For spells with in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell’s converted mana cost. However, that was more a function of how fast I was winning a lot of my games rather than Lurrus being bad. I was very surprised that Thien didn’t want anything to help deal with Uro, as that’s generally lights out for Burn if they Escape it and you can’t prevent the life gain. Use the options below to exercise this right, and please review our privacy policy for complete information on how your data is used and stored. Baffling End shores up that weakness as it lets you kill anything 3 CMC or less indiscriminate of their toughness. Bomat Courier may be one of the most important inclusions to Burn in a long time. © 1995-2021 Wizards. Let’s take a look at his list. The real question is the deck restriction that includes Lurrus better than being able to play permanents 3 CMC and up? This list looked super clean, to be expected of a player as good at Thien. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. As I said before, this matchup will live or die on if they can bombard you with Uro or if they blow you out with a sweeper. To me, Burn is a deck where proper sequencing is more important compared to most other archetypes and it will really test your limits of threat evaluation. A solid 2-1. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). As such, we're letting you know that we've updated our Privacy Policy to reflect the new rule set forth by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now this is a Burn spell! With that, I knew the deck was extremely well built, but just needed a tiny update. With that in mind, I think going as low to the ground as possible is where we want to be, a game plan Lurrus loves to enable. 3 may be overkill, but this is the best sideboard card you can ask for against a deck like Auras as well. It’s a Monored deck, you gotta play Shock. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Lutri, the Spellchaser. EDH Recommendations and strategy content for Magic: the Gathering Commander It’s awkward as I think you need to play 4 since any deck that plays Uro will also play 4, and you will generally not win if you don’t have a way to prevent life gain. Not a good time.