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BMoor's Magic The
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One of the most recent deck fixes I've done was Stuffy Rath-- a Stuffy Doll/Furnace of Rath combo deck. I don't usually fix decks so similar in such a short period of time, but this one seems different enough to give a look at. Besides, I'm just coming back from holiday break and since I've been off for weeks, it doesn't really seem like the two fixes are coming too close to each other.
Hello, and thanks for the great column. I have been tweaking this deck for the past month or so and this is what I've got so far:
Well, Mark, thank you for the E-mail. Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but life outside Pojo beckons. Your deck looks really solidly built. You've clearly done a great job on this deck, so much so that there's little I can do to make it better.
I can, however, solve your major problems. Against flying cards, your best bet is a card like Pyroclasm or Sulfurous Blast-- plenty of damage to wipe out everything, except Stuffy Doll of course! These cards also make a great way to pour extra damage onto Stuffy Doll.
For the problem of running out of cards too quickly, your best bet is Howling Mine. Yes, it gives your opponent cards too, but yours are bound to be more efficient, so it's worth it.
As for control decks, all a red burn deck can really do is keep pouring on the heat and hope they run out of counters. Howling Mine may actually make this deck even worse, unless they already have a lot of card draw spells, in which case they're either drawing so much that they have to discard, or their draw spells are dead in hand. Either way, they're not really getting all those cards they're drawing. However, control decks do like open mana, so the key here would be Wildfire. Not only will it wipe out creatures, but it will also leave their mana base crippled. This card should be the backbreaker for you, since by this time they should be scant few life points away from defeat. Actually, this could take the place of Pyroclasm.
However you do it, I'm sure you'll have plenty of success. Keep the fire burning, and good luck!
~BMoor
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