Burn, Baby Burn!!! With a format full of midrange creature decks that are getting more and more focused on beating each other, attacking from a different angle can be the best way to win. Creatures like Ishkanah, Grafwidow and Archangel Avacyn are so popular because in midrange mirrors they are so good at stabilizing the board from an onslaught of attackers. But, these expensive cards do not race particularly well and line up poorly against Fevered Visions and burn spells cannot be blocked. This burn focused strategy backed up by recurring sources of damage like Thermo-Alchemist and Fevered Visions is extremely hard to interact with and many of Standard's best decks are built around interacting. By bringing a Burn deck to your next tournament you can pull the rug out from underneath opponents and force them to play a kind of game they are simply not prepared for.

U/R Burn ? Kaladesh Standard| Jonathan Lobo Melamed, 2nd Place Grand Prix Santiago

• Creatures (8)
• 4 Stormchaser Mage
• 4 Thermo-Alchemist

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance

• Spells (26)
• 2 Lightning Ax
• 2 Unsubstantiate
• 4 Fiery Temper
• 4 Galvanic Bombardment
• 4 Incendiary Flow
• 2 Tormenting Voice
• 4 Collective Defiance
• 4 Fevered Visions

• Lands (24)
• 3 Island
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 3 Highland Lake
• 4 Spirebluff Canal
• 4 Wandering Fumarole

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Ceremonious Rejection
• 4 Negate
• 1 Summary Dismissal
• 2 Lightning Ax
• 2 Nahiri's Wrath
• 3 Bedlam Reveler
• 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

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Match 1: Aetherworks Marvel

Match 2: Mardu Vehicles

Match 3: B/R Aggro

Match 4: Esper Panharmonicon

Match 5: U/B Zombies

You are not prepared! — That is basically what I wanted to say to every one of my opponents in these 5 matches. Everyone in Standard is focused on attacking and blocking, but this burn deck is able to bypass all of that, converting mana and cards directly into damage. One thing that is also great about this deck is the format has access to very few good cards that gain life. Linvala, the Preserver can be a problem but is played in very small numbers. Blessed Alliance is weak and Gisela, the Broken Blade dies to 1-2 cmc removal. Finally, there is Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet but this deck has access to 4 Lightning Axe, 4 Collective Defiance and 2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance to take him down. This deck attacks in a unique way and there just aren't good ways to stop it. 10/10 would play this again!

Until next week, GLHF friends. May you smite thy enemies with a Golden Axe!

— Andrew Boswell

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