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Boros Charm is the next spell it can either deal 4 damage to a player of planeswalker, give all of your permanents indestructible, or give a creature double strike. Wizard’s Lightning is the next best thing to Lightning Bolt as long as you control a wizard, and wizard happen to be 3 of the 5 main deck creatures. Since Lightning Bolt isn’t legal and probably never will be, Lightning Strike is the default 3 damage spell. Nexus of Fate used fog effects, but that card is banned in Pioneer. The only advantage Wild Slash has over Shock is that is allows you to overcome fog effects which nobody really plays anyways so really just choose Shock. Honestly, I don’t think that clause will be relevant in in 99% of games. It’s basically a Shock, but if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can’t be prevented. Wild Slash is a popular card for this deck and starts off the bottom of the curve. Lightning Strike won’t kill things like Lovestruck Beast, but Soul-Scar Mage it can shrink it down to something that can either trade or chump block in combat. This is great because red generally has trouble dealing with big creatures. Rather than deal damage to the creature, the spell gives the creature -1/-1 counters, kind of like infect. Soul-Scar Mage also comes with prowess, but his true power lies in targeting bigger creatures with burn spells.
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That combination of prowess and haste is explosive. Monastery Swiftspear sees play in nearly every burn deck in every format it’s legal in. Ghitu Lavarunner starts out as a 1/2, but once you have 2 or more instant or sorcery cards in the graveyard, it turns into a Goblin Guide, a 2/2 with haste for 1 red. Let’s start with the one drops: Ghitu Lavarunner, Monastery Swiftspear, and Soul-Scar Mage. The deck can use Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a companion so all of your permanents need to cost 2 or less if you want to do that. Like all red decks, the creatures are very cheap. Actually, you could say it’s a mix between the old Arena Standard deck and the current Modern burn deck. It’s basically the burn deck from the early days of Arena that had cards from Dominaria and Ravnica with some upgrades for Pioneer. It’s about time a burn deck made some headway in Pioneer.