Actually, I disagree. Running Land-Destruction is good enough for the pros, so its good enough for me. Nowadays, they are starting to even mainboard it, which I tried and sort of liked back in the day (like 2 weeks ago). Molten Rain slows down opponents, and helps us get back on track with that extra burn. Peak Eruption is pretty much just Standard viable, not Modern.

I would go with Reverberate in stead of Skullcrack . It counters counters or acts as a win con. Also works really well with Rift Bolt .

Peak Eruption deals 3 damage and only has 2 red in its cost. If it's the mirror match you're playing it for, then it's the better choice since this deck's not mono-red, making Molten Rain 's double red cost a little more difficult.

Burn does care about lands, btw. It's own lands. Again, if it's a mirror match the burn player who's ahead on mana is probably winning.

Double red more difficult?! Look at all those City of Brasses and Shocks. More difficult my foot! Molten Rain is more versatile, for no extra cost essentially. The chances of a mirror match are much less than the chances of an anything else match. Nothing in this deck can't produce red except for the fetches, which produce nothing.

@ElPared Every land in the deck makes red mana. Molten Rain is better, unless you need to destroy basic Mountain s. Basically, it's better.

whatever, the point remains that land destruction is viable for burn decks. Don't have to rip me apart over it

Not trying to rip you apart. Just pointing out a fallacy in your statement. I wouldn't play land destruction for the mirror anyway, it's more for control decks and manlands.

I will argue that the burn player who is ahead on lands isn't necessarily winning. The burn player with six lands in play is probably not winning. :)

While Land Destruction is indeed useful and viable in a burn deck, it's usefulness would come from being effective against things like manlands and Tron.

On the note of burn needing lands, most burn decks are built to operate on 2-3 lands per game. While land destruction could leave another burn deck open to going down to 1 land, they can still play the multitude of one drops in the deck. On top of that, you'd have to find time to play a 3 drop sorcery which won't even deal damage against many monored burn builds if running Molten Rain. While it's devastating in the best case scenario, at worst you're destroying the 3rd or 4th land that they simply can do without.