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Archetypes of Imagination - Making a Burn Deck - Archetypes of Imagination - Burn
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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $6.99
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary

Flying You have no maximum hand size. Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, you draw that many cards.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary (fdn) 123

Commander

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Lands

Qty: 34 Price: $55.34
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (blc) 297
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Ferrous Lake

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Ferrous Lake (blc) 303
Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Fiery Islet (who) 278
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 286
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264
Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (drc) 170
Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (inr) 285
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (drc) 173
Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434

Lands

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Artifacts

Qty: 3 Price: $6.27
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

Artifacts

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Sorceries

Qty: 15 Price: $77.21
Boltwave

Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Boltwave (fdn) 79
Cave-In

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Sorcery
Cave-In (mmq) 180
End the Festivities

End the Festivities deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Sorcery
End the Festivities (vow) 155
Fiery Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature. • Fiery Confluence deals 2 damage to each opponent. • Destroy target artifact.

Sorcery
Fiery Confluence (lcc) 226
Flame Rift

Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.

Sorcery
Flame Rift (mh2) 278
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (mb2) 28
Inner Fire

Add {R} for each card in your hand.

Sorcery
Inner Fire (sok) 105
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (dsc) 73
Rite of Flame

Add {R}{R}, then add {R} for each card named Rite of Flame in each graveyard.

Sorcery
Rite of Flame (mb2) 59
Season of Weaving

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Draw a card. {P}{P} — Choose an artifact or creature you control. Create a token that's a copy of it. {P}{P}{P} — Return each nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Season of Weaving (blb) 68
Slagstorm

Choose one — • Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each creature. • Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each player.

Sorcery
Slagstorm (fdn) 207
Tectonic Hazard

Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Sorcery
Tectonic Hazard (lci) 169
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211

Sorceries

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Creatures

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (otc) 90
Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage of Runes (fdn) 30
Ashling, Flame Dancer

You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, discard a card, then draw a card. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, Ashling deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If it's the third time, add {R}{R}{R}{R}.

Creature
Ashling, Flame Dancer (mh3) 115
Chandra's Incinerator

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total amount of noncombat damage dealt to your opponents this turn. Trample Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

Creature
Chandra's Incinerator (m21) 136
Coruscation Mage

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Coruscation Mage (blb) 131
Electrostatic Field

Defender Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Electrostatic Field (otc) 164
Erebor Flamesmith

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Erebor Flamesmith (ltr) 122
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (40k) 119
Firebrand Archer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Firebrand Archer (j25) 548
Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Electromancer (otc) 228
Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Guttersnipe (j25) 138
Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) If an ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Harmonic Prodigy (mh2) 132
Kessig Flamebreather

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Kessig Flamebreather (vow) 164
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 71
Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Parun (otc) 235
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. {T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (c20) 225
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

Creature
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158
Pink Horror

Coruscating Flames — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to any target. Split — When this creature dies, create two 2/2 blue and red Demon Horror creature tokens named Blue Horror with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this token deals 1 damage to any target."

Creature
Pink Horror (40k) 136
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (blc) 282
Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature
Razorkin Needlehead (dsk) 153
Scalding Viper

Creature
Scalding Viper // Steam Clean (woe) 235
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. {1}{R/P}{R/P}, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Creature
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (one) 150
Stormcatch Mentor

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Stormcatch Mentor (blb) 234
The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (moc) 335
Thermo-Alchemist

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

Creature
Thermo-Alchemist (inr) 174
Twinflame Tyrant

Flying If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.

Creature
Twinflame Tyrant (fdn) 97
Unruly Catapult

Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Unruly Catapult (woe) 156
Urabrask

Creature
Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169
Veyran, Voice of Duality

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Veyran, Voice of Duality (otc) 248

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61

Enchantments

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Instants

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (drc) 70
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}. Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Desperate Ritual (uma) 127
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Flame of Anor

Choose one. If you control a Wizard as you cast this spell, you may choose two instead. • Target player draws two cards. • Destroy target artifact. • Flame of Anor deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant
Flame of Anor (ltr) 203
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Ghostfire Slice

Devoid (This card has no color.) This spell costs {2} less to cast if an opponent controls a multicolored permanent. Ghostfire Slice deals 4 damage to any target.

Instant
Ghostfire Slice (mh3) 123
Gut Shot

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to any target.

Instant
Gut Shot (plst) MM2-117
Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant
Into the Flood Maw (blb) 52
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (j25) 339
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Pyretic Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Pyretic Ritual (plst) M11-153
Rush of Inspiration

Instant
Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Untimely Malfunction

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161

Instants

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