Mardu Lifegain Burn

Standard* Burn Control Lifegain

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Creature (7)

• 2x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 3x Soulfire Grand Master
• 2x Stormbreath Dragon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

Land (22)

• 4x Battlefield Forge
• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Mountain
• 4x Nomad Outpost
• 2x Plains
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Temple of Malice
• 2x Temple of Silence
• 2x Temple of Triumph

Instant (17)

• 3x Crackling Doom
• 4x Lightning Strike
• 4x Magma Jet
• 4x Stoke the Flames
• 2x Wild Slash

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Arc Lightning
• 3x Crux of Fate
• 2x Hordeling Outburst
• 4x Read the Bones
• 3x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 2x Eidolon of the Great Revel
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master

Artifact (3)

• 3x Cranial Archive

Instant (4)

• 4x Erase

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Anger of the Gods
• 2x Glare of Heresy
• 1x Thoughtseize

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So this is a deck that is a burn deck that is not trying to win with burn. What!!!Well so now lets get to how this deck is suppose to work. in the early game (with standard the way it is right now) your probably going to be facing something pretty fast especially with the new card Monastery Mentor coming out. How do you respond? Ideally Searing Blood or you could use Satyr Firedancer to go crazy with Lightning Strikes.Now you've progressed to the mid-game and you're opponents aggressive strategy hasn't paid of and their hand is depleted. This is when you get really crazy since you've been chipping away at their life for the early game so their at a more manageable life total. Now using Soulfire Grand Master to regain the life you lost then using Ajani's Pridemate, Monastery Swiftspear, and Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker to kill your opponent. If this deck does go into the late game (it shouldn't) it's basically the same strategy as the early game.

Here are some cool interactions in this deck.

1. Searing Blood + Soulfire Grand Master you gain five life.
2. Ajani's Pridemate + Soulfire Grand Master simple enough.
3. Satyr Firedancer + Searing Blood does two damage to a creature then three to a player then three to a creature.

Here are some important less important cards

Read the Bones it's awesome card draw.Mardu Charm it's good in almost any situation. Arc Lightning is incredibly usefull against Monastery Mentor

Please give me ideas for cards i could put in the sideboard and anything you might think could be useful.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Satyr Firedancer + Searing Blood Searing Blood + Soulfire Grand Master Ajani's Pridemate + Soulfire Grand Master
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 2 Mythic Rares 20 - 4 Rares 17 - 5 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Emblem Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker, Goblin 1/1 R