y2dvd said:
This makes me cry. :'( Guess I will have to finally build another deck.
Plenty of ways to defeat burn other than counter. You can focus on using creatures with regenerate, protection from red, or shroud. Or creatures that have abilities when they hit the graveyard (perilous myr is great for this).
One strategy is to build a deck that purposefully wants it's creatures in the graveyard. I assume we are talking about type 2 so for instance, you could build an artifact based deck with red splashed in for scrapyard salvo (deals damage equal to the number of artifacts in your graveyard) and Slag Fiend (power and toughness equal to the artifacts in your graveyard.) So while you opponent is burning away all your artifact creatures to prevent from being overwhelmed, they are also giving you ammo to bust out a huge single burn spell or your own or a massive creature to stomp them with.
Throw in a bonehoard as well to capitalize on all your dead creatures. Phylactery Lich can work well here too.
Infect wise, throw in some Phyrexian Crusaders that have protection from red and laugh as you opponent slams his head on the table.
You could throw in spreading seas and evil presence to turn all their mountains into islands and swamps.
You can also just go super creature aggro, packing tons of cheap creatures in your deck so your opponent spends all his time trying to kill off the creatures and not being able to focus on you, until you can bust out something horrifying like a blightsteel collosus.
Someone mentioned leyline of sanctity, which definitely will fuck up any burn deck.
Haunting Echoes is hilarious to play against someone who goes through a ton of spells. Bust it out turn 5 and all those lightning bolts and other burn spells the player spend those 5 turns playing suddenly end up exiled from his library. Throw in some tome scours and archive traps to fatten up his graveyard before you bust it off.
