It pairs nicely with token generators and with death payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Pitiless Plunderer, and Zulaport Cutthroat, and its forestwalk ability has synergies with Toski, The Odd Acorn Gang, and other creatures that care about dealing combat damage to a player
I had originally planned to go into the history of Counter-Burn in this article, given that it's a fairly well-known archetype
A Love Letter to the Magic: The Gathering Power 9 Theres a certain something in the hunt, isnt there
The numbers are jacked up to accommodate attacking 40-point life totals, but translate that over to 1v1 20-life formats like Cube, and Bombardier goes off the deep end
In multiplayer, if youre mono-white, youre probably going to get both plains out quite regularly, which is pretty amazing for white decks
With their distinctively psychedelic aesthetic, these cards feature the kind of artwork youd expect to find on the side of a beaten up old van, or painted onto a carnival ride