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Red burn deck solid?

This is a cheap and in my opinion a solid tournament based deck.

Act of Treason and Infernal Plunge is very good to get easy mana, and get rid of
enemy creature, and it's a nice combo, if you have Inferno Titan in your hand.

Haunted Fengraf is good, if your Inferno Titan has ended in a graveyard in your game, that you can return
it to your hand.

Incinerate is good for those annoying regenerate creature.

For the sideboard I choose Goblin Grenade, because I have 8 Goblins and it can give a lot dmg
and with Grim Lavamancer, I can give 2 more dmg.

Combust is good for those white and blue mono and/or control deck. Go for the Throat is good against,
if you're against a black deck.

Arsonist Fire..

Creatures

4x Goblin Arsonist
4x Goblin Fireslinger
2x Grim Lavamancer
2x Inferno Titan
4x Ashmouth Hound

Land

4x Dragonskull Summit
4x Ghost Quarter
3x Swamp
8x Mountain
4x Haunted Fengraf

Planewalkers

2x Chandra, the Firebrand

Spells

2x Doom Blade
3x Act of Treason
4x Incinerate
3x Shock
4x Brimstone Volley
3x Infernal Plunge

Sideboard

4x Go for the Throat
2x Doom Blade
1x Chandra, the Firebrand
4x Combust
4x Goblin Grenade

This is how it look so far, please tell me your opinion of what I could improve, I not sure what I should
do against enchantment and artifacts, if you should get Shatter.
Posted 19 February 2012 at 18:58

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First of all, I don't think splashing black in this deck will necessarily benefit your cause, seeing as how you have enough burn to handle most aggression anyways, long enough for you to get your damage in and go for the quick victory. If you swapped in Arc Trail for the Doom Blade's it will give you a bit of quick creature removal early on.

Act of Treason would be more of a sideboard in this deck I feel, simply because of the fact that it only really seems useful when you are facing large and more intimidating creatures. If you happen to play against a deck that runs large numbers of small creatures, wasting 3 mana on stealing one for a turn wouldn't be a great idea.

I would suggest putting the Act of Treason as your sideboard and bringing in 3 of your Goblin Grenades. A deck like this should run fast and furious for low cost, so pulling a few Grenades early will be 10 damage for 2 mana.

Another option (I'm not sure what kind of resources are available to you), but Reverberate are an awesome fit into a burn deck like this. For 2 more red, you can copy an instant or sorcery and double blast your opponent or his creatures. It is basically Chandra's -2 ability in card form.

Creatures-wise, I think Chandra's Phoenix work amazing in burn decks as well, seeing as how they have Haste and Evasion (flying) and will get put back in your hand as soon as you cast one of your burns, or using Chandra's +1 ability.

All in all its looking like its coming along great and would pound out damage very quickly. Best of luck with it!
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Posted 20 February 2012 at 20:34

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Thanks, never thought of that, Just added 2 Reverbate, now i will see if I can trade to some Arc trail, but good point you have :) Thanks
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Posted 20 February 2012 at 20:55

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Looks decent, but I have to agree that splashing black doesn't help as much as it seems.

I ran a very similar deck for a while and splashed black for the same reasons (Doom Blade and Go For The Throat, mostly).

After some time I ended up switching to a mono-red deck and put 3 Rootbound Crags in to flashback Ancient Grudge. I had MUCH more success with it and it was way more consistent.

My list is here if you'd like to check it out. I was debating even putting a few Faithless Looting in to make it faster, but I'm trying out some other decks at the moment. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=264796
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Posted 23 February 2012 at 15:51

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