168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic The Gathering has had many burn spells released over its long history. A burn spell refers to any spell that can deal damage directly to the opponent, for any amount of damage. They've been printed at just about every rarity, perhaps most frequently at common rarity.
This is great for Pauper, Magic: The Gathering's all-common format. So long as a card was printed at common at any point, it is legal in the format (excluding acorn-stamped, illegal, and banned cards). This allows many obscure burn spells from other formats to be meta threats in Pauper.
10 🅘 Thermo-Alchemist ꦇ
Thermo-Alchemist is a burn card that is one of the reasons that the Burn archetype is a top-tier threat. It is a 0/3 with defender, but can tap itself to deal one damage to each opponent. Whenever 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:you cast an instant or sorcery, it can untap 🃏and do it all over again.
When combined with other burn spells, Thermo-Alchemist can deal devastating amounts of burn damage, while also having good toughness to act as a blocker for low-power threats. Thermo-Alchemist can hit the🐷 field ꦑearly, and begin burning the opponent as early as turn three.
9 Skewer The Critics 🌠
Skewer the Critics may be a sorcery spell to make it harder to choose to use it on a creature rather than the opponent, but it's still a fantastic burn spell. While it costs three mana normally, if the opponent took any damage, you can pay just one red mana for its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spectacle cost, which discounts it.
Skewer the Critics can deal three dam🍰age to any target. The damage source can come from anywhere to enable your spectacle, meaning that when combined with a low mana burn spell, you can cast Skewer the Critics fo🌜r its spectacle cost to deal a big burst of damage with just two spells.
8 🐬 Lava Spike
Lava Spike is a simple burn spell that only costs one red mana to cast. It can deal three damage to any player or 💧planeswalk🤪er. For Pauper, it can only hit a player, as there are no (current) legal planeswalkers in the format.
Lava Spike is great for starting to dwindle down the opponent's life, with its low casting cost allowing you to start burning early. It is also an arcane spell, and while unlikely to come up, it can be used to splice another spell onto it and use both cards' effects together.
7 Bump In The Night 🗹 ꦑ
Black is not the color most people associate with burn spells (something that is generally reserved for red). However, Bump in the Night offers a fantastic, and simple burn spell. For just one b⛎lack mana, you can make ജthe opponent lose one life.
Unlike many other burn spells in Pauper, Bump in the Night also has flashback. This allows you to cast it from the graveyard for five generic mana and one red. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rakdos (red/black) Burn is a deck that has been picking up steam, and B꧂ump in th✤e Night is one of its key players.
6 🍎 Chain Lightning ཧ
Chain Lighting is a one-mana burn spell that can deal three damage to any target. Generally, you don't want to pay more than one mana for a burn spell, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:especially one that's a sorcery, making Chain Lightning the perfect mana cost.
It does come with a downside that the opponent can pay two red mana to copy Chain Lightning and use it themselves. They may not always do this, as you can copy the copy to continuously use it and dwindle their life down. Not every deck plays red or has the mana available, making it even better to use against them — since they won't be able to copy it.
5 Rift Bolt
Rift Bolt is a card that you'll unlikely be casting for its regular three-mana casting cost. Instead, for one red mana, you can suspend Rift Bolt for one turn to cast it when your next upkeep comes around — 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:without paying its mana cost — making it trivial to cast.
Rift Bolt can deal three damage to any target. The suspend cost is be🃏neficial, as when it comes back to your turn, you can choose to de𓄧al the damage directly to the opponent, or to a creature that your opponent may have played.
4 🦂 𒊎 Searing Blaze
Searing Blaze costs two red mana to cast, and hits both a creature and a creature's controller. Normally, it just deals one to each. However, it also has a landfall ability that if a land entered the battlefield, it does three damage to each instead.
Most burn spells can only hit one or the other, which allows Searing Blaze to be used as direct damage and a removal spell on a lower-toughness creature. It can be done at instant speed as well, which can be especially useful when combined in a land like Evolving Wilds that can trigger landfall on the opponent's turn.
3 Fireblast
Fireblast is a burn spell that normally costs a hefty six mana to cast. The value can be worth it, as it deals four damage to any target. However, you're often never going to actually pay the cost for Fireblast.
Instead, you can cast Fireblast without paying its mana cost if you sacrifice two Mountains. While losing lands may seem costly, Fireblast is more often used as a finisher, rather than a way to chip damage out at the start of a game. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The lands can be tapped as well, so after using up your mana you can use Fireblast's alternative cost to close out a game.
2 Galv🍒anic Blast
Galvanic Blast is a fantastic burn spell, though the decks it slots best into aren't traditional Burn decks. Galvanic Blast is a basic instant for one red mana, letting you deal two damage to any target. It's similar to another card, Shock, that has this same ability.
However, Galvanic Blast has metalcraft, and if you control 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:three or more artifacts, it will deal four damage instead. It's a staple of artifact and Affinity decks, and a common removal and burn spell that can be used with just artifact lands to reach the metalcraft threshold.
1 ☂ Ligh♊tning Bolt
Perhaps the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:most iconic burn spell in Magic: The Gathering, Lightning Bolt is also the staple burn spell in its Pauper format. It's an incredibly simple card. For one red mana, it can deal three damage to any target.
Lightning Bolt does enough damage that it can be used as a removal spell as well, allowing you versatility that other burn spells can struggle to offer as easily. Yo💜u🥃 will never see a Burn deck not running the max number of Lightning Bolts, and it will likely be a staple in the format for as long as its around.