It’s still not cheap to get this to add up to a lot of damage, and this will often end up being less than convenient (for example, try sacrificing two lands to use this on turn 4 and see what happens), but the potential is there. Fetchlands are an excellent start to this process, and there are a number of other similar cards that sacrifice to replace themselves or to do damage. This can add up to a reasonable deal if sacrifices can be summoned on cue at reasonable cost that are worth doing anyway. Some people just want to see the world burn. Only time will tell whether even they’re all that interested. This is a six-drop for the desperate Limited player. That born of fire can do nothing but burn. It can potentially do a lot of damage, but there are many ways to do similar amounts of damage with a lot less work, investment, and exposure. It doesn’t boost toughness, so it can’t win in a fight. There’s no safe way to take advantage of this card. If there are one-toughness targets to pick off, an outright Cunning Sparkmage or similar creature is a vastly better choice.
The requirement to spend mana means that even the best-case scenario isn’t all that impressive, and there are far more efficient ways to turn playing artifacts into victory. Admittedly there is some upside here from the fact that you don’t lose your own creatures, but the reliability issues aren’t something that can be overcome. Even in a scenario where you’re using Jace to set the top card of their library, the best you can do is wipe their side and do some damage once you find a big enough target. They may not even play cards big enough to trigger this at the level you want, and it’s very easy to miss. The most important thing about a Wrath effect, whether one-sided or otherwise, is that it’s reliable. This is what is known as completely missing the point although in Limited, it looks like a lot of fun. I’ve heard rumors it was previously printed, but if I don’t remember seeing it, it’s new to me! It’s going to make a lot of people throw up their hands in drafts, but that’s what these cards are made for. The payoff isn’t that great, and it’s a lot of work to get it. “I don’t care how tired you are, we’re going to keep trying this until you get it. All of that assumes that metalcraft is available, which it won’t always be, and this is particularly awkward when you’re not sure if you should try to wait for it or not. Combined with the extra mana, this seems worse than Ball Lightning and other similar staples. As a one-time attack, it’s important to have trample, and the Berserkers doesn’t have it. Sending over a 6/6 for four mana sounds good to me, but it only leaves behind a 3/3. Getting new weapons can be highly inspiring.
In this case, you’d need to give it haste, remove the sacrifice requirement, and probably boost the damage to three. With cards so obviously Limited-only, I like to think about how much better they’d have to be to make them interesting for Standard. Lightning reigning down from the sky is scary.
If you want double strike this bad, play creatures that already have it, since you’re clearly trying to pump them up beyond all reason. This doesn’t even have the decency to be an instant. It’s not a terrible tool in the exact right spot, but it’s well below the standard rates.
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This continues that tradition, unable to even hit the opponent for the full three damage and sometimes requiring you to take a little for the team. We’ve all been spoiled by the rise of a new class of burn spell that tries to compete with Lightning Bolt, and that has made two-mana burn spells highly awkward. One of them is the next in a long line of Bolts, but the other is something new. Scars has no interest in arguing with that tradition and sticks its two best red cards out like sore thumbs. Pick out the good burn, the good aggressive creatures, and perhaps an engine card or two. It has a one-track mind, and on that track, it’s usually easy to see which deals are good and which deals are not.
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