Glass Cannon decks sacrifice resilience and long-game staying power for explosive speed or damage. They can end games abruptly when everything lines up, but disruption aimed at one crucial creature or combo piece can cause the entire plan to collapse.
Infect strategies built around creatures such as Blighted Agent can operate this way, stacking pump spells onto one threat. All-in combo decks can similarly devote so much space to speed that they have little room left for a backup plan.