The Philosophy of Fire: Hybrid Strategies and That Dirty Combo Deck Feeling
During the Extended season of winter and spring 1999, Jamie Wakefield made a rather interesting observation. The dominant decks of the time was of course High Tide, but there were other decks of comparatively brief lifespan that also won very quickly; all of which were capable of a fourth turn kill. The thing is, during this extremely fast and high-powered format, even the mono-Red beatdown decks were getting into the act. Jamie’s observation? The burn decks were playing like combo decks. They had fast kills too, but they had to draw a certain way in order to get them.
The first time we talked about the Philosophy of Fire, the goal was to introduce the idea of valuing cards according to a different scale. At the…
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