Format jargon
Mono-Red Burn
A Premodern direct damage deck that burns the opponent to zero life with Lightning Bolt, Fireblast, Price of Progress, and similar spells.
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Adjacent terms
- Aggro
- A strategic archetype focused on deploying threats quickly and reducing the opponent's life total to zero as fast as possible.
- Burn
- Damage dealt directly to a player (or planeswalker) via red spells, often used to describe the Mono-Red Burn archetype or the strategy of aiming all damage at the opponent.
- Sligh
- A Premodern aggro-burn archetype named after player Paul Sligh, characterized by a low mana curve, cheap creatures, and direct damage spells.