Burning Brains

Modern BR (Rakdos) Burn Card Draw Matters Combo Discard Reanimator Sacrifice Suicide Black Tokens Zombie

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Creature (26)

• 4x Archfiend's Vessel
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 4x Champion of the Perished
• 4x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 1x Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 2x Liliana's Steward
• 1x Necroplasm
• 1x Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Land (20)

• 4x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Dakmor Salvage
• 2x Mortuary Mire
• 4x Rakdos Carnarium
• 4x Raucous Theater
• 2x Swamp

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Claim / Fame

Enchantment (7)

• 2x Bastion of Remembrance
• 4x Burning Vengeance
• 1x Grave Pact

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Untouched By Death

Artifact (2)

• 2x Tarrian's Journal  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bridge from Below
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Dying to Serve
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile

Artifact (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cellar Door
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Dread Summons
• 2x Faithless Looting
• 1x Shenanigans
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wrench Mind

Instant (2)

• 1x Decaying Time Loop
• 1x Village Rites

Creature (6)

• 1x Balduvian Atrocity
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Scourge of Nel Toth
• 1x Squee, the Immortal

Land (1)

• 1x Field of the Dead

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Check out my Commander / EDH version of this deck: Burning Brains

This is a Rakdos {B}{R} deck centered around Zombie spam, sacrificing Zombies, bringing Zombies back, Burn, Discard, Draw, and all the fun stuff.

Combo List:

Burning Vengeance is the highly unusual card that inspired me to put this deck together. Synergies for this card include: Chainer, Nightmare Adept, Claim / Fame (only the Aftermath side), Gravecrawler, Ebondeath, Dracolich, Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (Escape), Liliana, Untouched By Death (ultimate)

Burning Vengeance + Gravecrawler + Tarrian's Journal   / Ayara, First of Locthwain can be pretty nutty, especially with multiple copies of Burning Vengeance / Gravecrawler out on the battlefield.

Archfiend's Vessel + Claim / Fame go together like butter on bread, two peas in a pod, best friends forever for life (or unlife)

Cryptbreaker is another key card here, providing an unhealthy amount of Zombie tokens, choice of Discard, and Draw from tapping 3 Zombies. It combos with tons of things, namely stuff that wants to go to the Graveyard for Recursion and other Zombies for Draw.

To help supplement additional Draw outside of Cryptbreaker, we've also got Tarrian's Journal  , Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Midnight Reaper. The later also has a cute little interaction with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge for additional casting from the Graveyard synergy with Burning Vengeance.

Raucous Theater synergizes with the deck's name. And I guess things that want to go to the Graveyard. It's all about the name though.

Necroplasm is mainly here for board wipes, but could potentially be a win con with Ayara / Bastion of Remembrance

Champion of the Perished obviously wants to come out first and buff up from all his Zombie buddies coming into play.

Mortuary Mires are here to help bring back Chainer, Nightmare Adept, which would be otherwise inaccessible if removed.

Liliana and her Steward are just here for moral support. Give 'em hell you spawn of Satan.

Date added	1 month
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.10
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Modern Decks I Did Not Make