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Burn Decks are designed to "burn" the opponent's Life Points down to 0 with waves of cards that inflict Effect Damage (instead of relying on Battle Damage, like an Aggro Deck). These Decks are usually slow (with perhaps 1000-2400 damage per turn) and are usually combined with Stall Decks to maximize inflicted damage while protecting the user's Life Points (as Burn Decks do not usually run many powerful monsters to defend directly). True to its name, many "burn" effects in the game feature FIRE Attribute or Pyro-Type monsters, or otherwise feature fire in general (such as "Hinotama", "Tremendous Fire", and "Meteor of Destruction").
However, there are several counters to Burn Decks (see Counter Burn Deck), and in general it is considered one of the easiest Decks to Side against. The most threatening counter is "Prime Material Dragon", although cards like "Lava Golem", "Volcanic Queen", "Divine Wrath" and "Bad Reaction to Simochi" can reverse this. However, there are many additional threats:
- Because Burn Decks mostly rely on stall cards to prevent taking battle damage, they are highly vulnerable to Spell and Trap removal. A Burn Deck must therefore contain plenty of Counter Traps, like "Solemn Judgment", "Dark Bribe", "Judgment of Anubis" (because "Mystical Space Typhoon" is a standard removal card), and "Seven Tools of the Bandit".
- Faster burn Decks leave the player without any cards quickly, so a way to refill the player's hand is needed.
- "Barrel Behind the Door", and especially "Crimson Fire", can be deadly against burn decks.
Stall Burn
The main priority of this Deck is to stall using cards such as "Gravity Bind", "Level Limit - Area B" and "Swords of Revealing Light" and slowly inflict damage with cards such as "Solar Flare Dragon", "Stealth Bird", "Lava Golem" and "Wave-Motion Cannon". One must also pack defense against Spell and Trap destruction, due to the Deck's reliance on Continuous Cards.
- Wave-Motion Cannon
- Toll
- Chain Energy
- Poison of the Old Man
- Ookazi (Add 3 copies of "Poison of the Old Man" before you consider adding this card)
- Swords of Revealing Light
- Dark Room of Nightmare
- Level Limit - Area B
- Messenger of Peace
- Scapegoat
- Nightmare's Steelcage
- Sebek's Blessing
FIRE/Pyro Burn
Molten Burn
The Molten Burn Deck is a Deck that focuses on burning your opponent with FIRE monsters. Cards like "Solar Flare Dragon" and "The Thing in the Crater" keep monsters on your field.
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Volcanic Burn
See: Volcanic
The strategy of this burn deck is to attack and burn your opponent with Pyro-Type monsters.
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Simochi Burn (Anti-Cure, Anti-Heal)
See: Anti-Cure for the main article
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Direct Burn
An effective way to burn your opponent quickly is to use monsters that can attack your opponent directly while protecting yourself with stall cards. Another version of this is to use Shadow Delver's effect to allow Level 4 or lower DARK monsters to attack your opponent's Life Points directly. By using monsters such as "Prometheus, King of the Shadows" or any high Level DARK monster equipped with 1 or more "Demotion", this can become an OTK.
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Zombie Burn
See: Zombie Burn Deck
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Dark Snake Syndrome Burn
The main point of this Deck is to activate "Dark Snake Syndrome" and protect your Life Points with "Des Wombat", keeping your life points above your opponents.
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Raging Lava Stall Burn
This is a Deck that heavily relies on dealing effect damage while also restricting your opponents attacks. The main cards needed for this Deck are "Lava Golem" and "Raging Flame Sprite". It mainly consists of cards that can easily deal a lot of effect damage while also protecting your monsters from destruction. Cards with extremely high defense work perfectly for this kind of Deck. Cards like "Prime Material Dragon" or "Black-Winged Dragon" can cause a lot of trouble for you, but cards that can instantly stop their Summon or attacks can work perfectly against them. You may want to add a few XYZ Monsters, for Gravity Bind and Level Limit - Area B support.
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Chain-Heal
See: Chain-Heal
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Chain Burn (non-OTK)
This Deck focuses on more sustained damage using Spells/Traps that chain together. While "Chain Strike" is certainly part of the Deck's strategy it is by no means impossible to win without it. Instead of linking little sparks to each other and burning your opponent down in one blazing combo, you force a gridlock using stall cards so that attacking is not a viable option for opponents. Chainable stall cards such as "Threatening Roar" and "Swift Scarecrow" can be used in supplement to more reliable stall cards such as "Gravity Bind" and "Marshmallon". "Ojama Trio" works even better here by shutting down monster zones (but be careful of tuners that will turn them into a powerful synchro!). "Lava Golem" and "Volcanic Queen" are two of the best cards for this deck since they deal consistent burn damage, get rid of any nasty monsters on the field like "Prime Material Dragon" or "Great Shogun Shien", and either can't attack through stall cards or get their painful attacks returned by "Magic Cylinder" and "Dimension Wall". By also running many of the normal burning and drawing cards of a chain strike deck, winning by the second or third turn still very easily happens.
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Reactor Burn
- Main article: Reactor
This Deck revolves around the three Reactor monsters, working to Special Summon "Flying Fortress SKY FIRE" while dealing damage to your opponent until you can.
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Dark Stall Burn
This Deck can inflict a huge amount of damage using "Dark Room of Nightmare" and "Earthbound Immortal Chacu Challhua", also you can use dark monsters to add a real block to your opponent, cards on this Deck are focused in Summoning a lot of times so you really want cards that can do that. Use some tokens to stall your opponent while you destroy your opponent's Life Points, you may also want to block your opponent's attacks and destruction effects so you should add "Magic Cylinder" and "Stardust Dragon". Now the perfect Synchro to stop your opponents' effect damage is "Black-Winged Dragon". Focus on Special Summoning
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Herald Cannon Burn
The Herald Cannon Burn focuses in locking opponent with "Herald of Perfection" and inflicting Burn damage using "Wave-Motion Cannon".
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Herald Cannon Effect Burn
This burn deck concentrate on Ritual Summoning Herald of Perfection which protects destructive Spell card Wave-Motion Cannon. There are also burn cards like Fairy Archer and Marshmallon. In opposition to "Herald Cannon Burn" there are no Normal Monsters.
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Bubbleman Burn
The Bubbleman Burn Deck is a very fast version of the Burn Deck, which uses cards like "Elemental HERO Bubbleman" and "Card of Sanctity" to draw Normal or Quick-Play Spell Cards which inflict damage. These Decks are made up mostly of one-time burn cards and self-milling cards that go to the Graveyard after they are used, making "Bubbleman" and "Card of Sanctity" more playable. Stall cards are not recommended, since the drawing effect of "Bubbleman" won't trigger if there are cards on the field. However, some people do run single use Trap or Quick-Play Spell Cards like "Threatening Roar" or "Magic Cylinder" that you always set last, and can be used as back-ups when you are forced to discard. The only Trap card specifically recommended is "Magical Explosion", which is often used as a finisher in this Deck.
Recommended cards
- Card of Sanctity
- Meteor of Destruction
- Tremendous Fire
- Ookazi
- Poison of the Old Man
- Restructer Revolution
- Final Flame
- Misfortune
- Goblin Thief
- Chain Strike
- Reinforcement of the Army
- E - Emergency Call
- The Warrior Returning Alive
- Lightning Vortex
- Cup of Ace
- Magical Mallet
- Soul of Fire (to banish Volcanic Doomfire and inflict 1500 damage.)
- Magical Explosion
- Ceasefire
- Magic Cylinder
- Just Desserts
- Dimension Wall
- Reckless Greed (to refill your hand and chain with Chain Strike)
Exxod Burn
See: sphinx
The main point of the Exxod Burn Deck is to quickly Summon "Exxod, Master of The Guard" and continually use its burn effect.
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Toon Direct Burn
See: Toon Monster
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Chain Strike
A newer type of Burn Deck is the "Chain Strike OTK", which is designed to win by the first to third turn. This is accomplished by starting a chain with, for example, "Just Desserts", continuing with, for example, "Ojama Trio", and adding Chain Links until a well-timed "Chain Strike" can generate enough burn damage to win. These Decks are generally built with few monsters, resulting in Decks with about six monster cards, and burn or drawing cards for the rest.
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Magical Explosion Burn (FTK)
A "Magical Explosion" burn deck uses "Royal Magical Library" and some Draw Engines in order to send a number of Spell Cards to your Graveyard, use "Upstart Goblin" to give your opponent 1000 Life Points, then use "Wall of Revealing Light" to set your Life Points to 1000 and "Life Equalizer" to set your opponent's Life Points to 3000, using "Magical Explosion" to finish them off.
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Reactive Burn Deck
This deck works around making your opponent pay life points for every action. As your opponents life points start reaching zero, they stop making plays, which forces a few high damage cards to be used like "Ceasefire"and "Just Desserts", or continuously damaging cards like "Minor Goblin Official", "Nightmare Wheel", or "Lava Golem". This deck works best adding stalls cards, forcing your opponent to waste most of their efforts destroying either your stall cards or burn cards, hopefully not both. Cards that can stall without completely negating attacks like "Ordeal of a Traveler", "Mirror Force", or "Waboku" over those that completely stop attacks likes "Gravity Bind" or "Swords of Revealing Light" to add in the damage from "Toll".
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Cure-Burn
The main point of this deck is using the effect of "Fire Princess". This deck is also called "Big Bang Deck", as the Japanese name of "Fire Princess" is "Big Bang Girl". With "Fire Princess", stalling and curing will automatically damage your opponent and prevent their attacks.
First you should search "Fire Princess" with "Sangan", "UFO Turtle", or "Gold Sarcophagus".
Next "Messenger of Peace", "Level Limit - Area B", "Swords of Revealing Light", "Nightmare's Steelcage", "Gravity Bind", "Wall of Revealing Light", "Red Screen",and "Mirror Wall" will stall your opponent.
Then cure yourself with cards like "Marie the Fallen One", "Golden Ladybug", "Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird", and "White Magician Pikeru".
Normal burn cards are not recommended as cure cards can be more effective in this deck, especially when you control "Dark Room of Nightmare" and several copies of "Fire Princess".
Cure-Burn deck is strong against most of the burn decks as it cures life points itself constantly.
Recommended cards
- Sangan (Traditional Format only)
- Witch of the Black Forest (Traditional Format only)
- UFO Turtle
- Fire Princess
- Marie the Fallen One
- Cure Mermaid
- Healing Wave Generator
- Golden Ladybug
- White Magician Pikeru
- Spirit of the Breeze
- Dancing Fairy
- Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird
- Injection Fairy Lily
- Kiseitai
- Marshmallon
- Lava Golem
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