Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 393! This week Mark and Adam are burning down the countryside as they discuss the hottest Burn based cards in our format! But first, we talk about the latest product release from WotC with lands so expensive you might have to pay property taxes for them.

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 393

taxes for them.

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

CommanderCast Episode 393

Posted: March 16, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

• Do you need Fetch lands in Commander?
  • “Making Fetch Happen – Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition”
  • Per mothership: 
    • “Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition will contain one non-foil copy of each of these cards, and you can only get the grouping of five at your local game store starting May 29. Copies are limited—stores will typically receive no more than 10 copies of Ultimate Edition—so make sure to check with your local game store.”

Interstitial fodder: 

• Corned beef
• Ginseng Roots (the comic)

Strategy

Playing Burn in EDH

Totally stealing Stephen’s metric & updating it for 2020: using “decks that play Comet Storm” as a metric for Burn decks in EDH.

**Worth reading: “Bringing Back the Burn,” by Stephen Johnson

See also: EDHREC’s Burn theme page

 Commanders

• Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• Ayara, First of Locthwain
• Syr Carah, the Bold
• Heartless Hidetsugu
• Neheb, the Eternal

Maybe list

• Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• Firesong and Sunspeaker

HOT TAKE: 

• Earthquake effects aren’t really that great for Burn decks.
• Lightning Bolt is totally playable in EDH. Fight me!
  • See also: the list of Commanders with toughness 3 or less.

Pros:

• Can pull sudden wins out of nowhere

Cons:

• Finite resources
• You’re on a clock
• Super mana-intensive
• Needs recursion and/or a lot of draw
• Needs supporting strategy (ramp, copy effects, etc.)

Technology

Our favorite Burn tech

Adam – 

• Tectonic Giant
• Underworld Breach
• Guttersnipe
• Firebrand Archer
• Runaway Steam-Kin
• Chandra’s Ignition

Mark – 

• Pyrohemia
• Aria of Flame
• Repeated Reverberation
• Elemental Appeal
• Searing Wind
• Insult // Injury

Outtro/Contacts:

CommanderCast  – Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CommanderCast

Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com  // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone

Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com

Adam – (at)squire9999

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And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!