Sick Burn

Mono-Red Creature Tokens and Insulting Behavior

Rionya, Fire Dancer by Heonhwa Choe

The crew of Sick Burn aren’t happy just burning your opponent’s creatures – they need to bruise your opponent’s ego, too! Witty Roastmaster is the key to some truly insulting combos here. Rionya, Fire Dancer and Witty Roastmaster are an especially potent combo; target Roastmaster with Rionya’s power and trigger each successive token’s ability off the previous ones for maximum ego burn. Couple that with Zada and a Reckless Charge, and you’ve got a truly terrifying crew of devilish dastards. No Rionya? Target Zada with a Twinflame – you won’t need to pay the Strive cost to replicate Twinflame’s ability across all your creatures, and each of those tokens will trigger Witty Roastmaster.

To finish, pile on the tokens with Rionya and Twinflame, boost your army with Goblin Offensive, and pull out a surprise Relentless Assault, triggering Rionya (and Witty Roastmaster’s Alliance ability) a second time. Talk about adding insult to injury!

Planeswalkers

  • 1 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator

Creatures (16)

  • 3 Zada, Hedron Grinder
  • 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
  • 2 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 4 Young Pyromancer
  • 4 Witty Roastmaster
  • 2 Reckless Barbarian

Enchantments (2)

  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment

Sorceries (15)

  • 1 Burn Down the House
  • 2 Twinflame
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Goblin Offensive
  • 4 Reckless Charge
  • 2 Relentless Assault
  • 2 Seize the Spoils
  • 2 Insult // Injury

Instants (13)

  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Molten Blast
  • 2 Thrill of Possibility
  • 2 Antagonize
  • 2 Abrade
  • 1 Headlong Rush
  • 4 Demon Bolt

Lands (24)

(I like Zendikar artwork for the basic lands)

  • 24 Mountain

Tokens

  • Copy
  • Treasure
  • 1/1 Red Elemental
  • 1/1 Red Goblin
  • 4/1 Black Skeleton with Menace
  • 1/1 Red Devil with “When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.”
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