The way I approach deck building 1. What is my deck's gameplan? Properly defining this is the most important part of the process. 2. What cards can I use to achieve the goal? 3. Refine my card selection. How do the cards I chose tie in to the deck's gameplan. So for Burn: 1. Play inefficient, but cheap/easy to cast burn spells to race my opponent. Remember with Burn it is a sprint. Your card quality is inherently poorer than your opponent. If your opponent makes it to turn 4/5 without being dead or close to dead on board, you've probably lost the game. 2. You've already found some cards. 3. Now evaluate your cards based on how well they tie in to your gameplan. For example: Dauthi Voidwalker. a 2 mana 3/2 unblockable threat that's graveyard hate and a value piece. How well does that synergise with your deck's gameplan to race your opponent? It's a turn 2 play that is relatively easy to interact with, and doesn't interact with your opponent's life total when it's played. A sideboard card at best against graveyard strategies, but probably isn't fast enough for the burn plan. Also, decks like Burn also require a critical mass of cards that do damage to win consistently. a red burn deck with only 8 burn spells is not burn. Is it worth diluting your critical mass of burn spells to try and fit in a Grim Reminder package? Especially considering how slow the Grim Reminder package can be and you are introducing dead draws into your deck. A lot of Burn sideboards are about shutting out specific bad matchups, while still being a burn spell. 1 for 1ing when you're on burn is not great because, as I said above, your card quality is so much worse. A good way to test burn decks is to make the deck. Take the top 10/11 cards and then ask does this win the game? If so, what turn does it win by. Good luck
@@michaelbowen1838 lmao, ik how dare I try to get into a new format with fundamentally different deck building fundamentals and card pool to the formats I currently play, shame on me for wanting to play a more competitive format, and double shame on me for trying to play an underused deck archetype in that format instead of just copy pasting a Nadu or evoke deck list.
The way I approach deck building
1. What is my deck's gameplan? Properly defining this is the most important part of the process.
2. What cards can I use to achieve the goal?
3. Refine my card selection. How do the cards I chose tie in to the deck's gameplan.
So for Burn:
1. Play inefficient, but cheap/easy to cast burn spells to race my opponent.
Remember with Burn it is a sprint. Your card quality is inherently poorer than your opponent. If your opponent makes it to turn 4/5 without being dead or close to dead on board, you've probably lost the game.
2. You've already found some cards.
3. Now evaluate your cards based on how well they tie in to your gameplan.
For example: Dauthi Voidwalker.
a 2 mana 3/2 unblockable threat that's graveyard hate and a value piece. How well does that synergise with your deck's gameplan to race your opponent? It's a turn 2 play that is relatively easy to interact with, and doesn't interact with your opponent's life total when it's played. A sideboard card at best against graveyard strategies, but probably isn't fast enough for the burn plan.
Also, decks like Burn also require a critical mass of cards that do damage to win consistently. a red burn deck with only 8 burn spells is not burn.
Is it worth diluting your critical mass of burn spells to try and fit in a Grim Reminder package? Especially considering how slow the Grim Reminder package can be and you are introducing dead draws into your deck.
A lot of Burn sideboards are about shutting out specific bad matchups, while still being a burn spell. 1 for 1ing when you're on burn is not great because, as I said above, your card quality is so much worse.
A good way to test burn decks is to make the deck. Take the top 10/11 cards and then ask does this win the game? If so, what turn does it win by.
Good luck
Add a play set of both get and good
@@michaelbowen1838 lmao, ik how dare I try to get into a new format with fundamentally different deck building fundamentals and card pool to the formats I currently play, shame on me for wanting to play a more competitive format, and double shame on me for trying to play an underused deck archetype in that format instead of just copy pasting a Nadu or evoke deck list.