Legacy Burn deck

UPDATED MARCH/2022 
A Burn deck is a deck strategy that uses direct damage spells as its primary win-condition. The deck receives its name from the usage of burn spells and effects. It is also one of the strategies that have been in Legacy since the early stages. 
== Overview ==
Burn is a peculiar deck that is a purely aggressive. It is an aggro deck that does not need creatures on the battlefield to win.
Still Burn decks do use creatures. They tend to have haste, high power relative to cost (often expendable), or the capacity for direct damage. 
This is one of the decks that have a controversy on wether it is considered Aggro or Combo. These are the arguments for both sides:
* It is combo, except the combination of cards is spread out through the course of a few turns and it doesn't like to interact with the opponent
*It is aggro because it doesn't try to make a big play and win in one turn, and the burn damage can be analog to a series of small successive attacks over the course of the game
The latter (Aggro) is a more accepted view of the deck - and is also the official section it is generally put in sites like MTGTop8, although many players do consider it either Combo or Aggro-Combo.
The deck uses its own form of card advantage by rendering its opponents' creature removal, mana denial, and other control cards completely or nearly useless. It is also an extremely consistent archetype, chiefly killing the opponent by turns 3~5.
Burn is widely known to be a solid deck that is both cost-friendly to players and strong enough to perform competitively.
== Early Decklists==
There used to be a couple of intersecting variations: 
*Sligh-burn
*Mana-sink burn using <c>Grim Lavamancer</c> and <c>Hellspark Elemental</c> for late game reach
*Mana-curve burn, using <c>Magma Jet</c> and 3-cost spells chosen to fight specific threats within the metagame.
The following is an example of Sligh-burn:
<deck title="6th Place: Burn - Austin Yost - SCG Legacy Las Vegas - 2011">
Lands
2 Barbarian Ring
17 Mountain
Creatures
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Goblin Guide
3 Hellspark Elemental
3 Keldon Marauders
Instants
4 Fireblast
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
Sorceries
4 Chain Lightning
4 Flame Rift
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
Sideboard
4 Faerie Macabre
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
3 Smash to Smithereens
</deck>
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==Contemporary Decklists==
Since then, the strategy remained the same. Except that ever since, there have been better, more efficient cards printed over the years.
Notice the differences and similarities from the previous list:
<deck title="5th Place: Burn - Alexander Schreiber - Series Bottrop (Germany) - 23/01/2022">
Lands
16 Mountain
Creatures
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
Instants and Sorceries
4 Chain Lightning
4 Fireblast
4 Flame Rift
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
4 Rift Bolt
4 Spikefield Hazard
Sideboard
1 Cursed Totem
4 Faerie Macabre
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Smash to Smithereens
4 Stingscourger
1 Torpor Orb
</deck>
This is another example with minor differences from the previous list.
Both share the same creatures. The printing of <c>Monastery Swiftspear</c> and <c>Eidolon of the Great Revel</c> gave Burn a new strength and better tools to face the meta. And <c>Light Up the Stage</c>, as well, is a card that impacted the world of Burn since it helps Burn find the last spells to finish off the opponent.
<c>Exquisite Firecraft</c> often makes appearances in metas where counterspells are abundant.
<deck title="2nd Place: Burn - Hugueville Mathieu - Trollune (Lyon, France) - 17/02/2022">
Lands
12 Mountain
4 Prismatic Vista
4 Scalding Tarn
Creatures
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
Instants and Sorceries
4 Chain Lightning
4 Fireblast
1 Flame Rift
2 Exquisite Firecraft
4 Lava Spike
1 Light Up the Stage
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
4 Rift Bolt
Sideboard
3 Faerie Macabre
1 Pyroblast
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Smash to Smithereens
2 Sulfuric Vortex
</deck>
== Burn and budget play ==
Burn is commonly described as one of best decks for budget-limited players. And it is also an easy deck to learn in case a player is new to the format or to the game in general.
As you saw in the examples given above, the inclusion of fetch-lands in the deck isn't even mandatory for competitive play, and that cuts down the overall price of the deck by a lot.
The deck needs zero cards from the Reserved List and that is also something that helps keep the price down.
== See also ==
* Legacy
* Vintage
* Modern
* Aggro
* Combo
* Red
* Direct Damage
* Reserved List
* Revitalization of Legacy