Being a complete psychopath, I've always wanted to abuse furnace of rath. The answer came one day when I faced a stuffy doll, which was quite annoying stall. While festering goblin sent it to the grave, even more impressive was the idea it gave. Furnace of Rath causes damage to be doubled, which on its own can cause quite a bit of trouble. Then I see stuffy doll, and my jaw falls. (i'm sick of rhyming now). Now I noticed the interesting combo that stuffy doll and furnace of rath create... damage dealt to stuffy doll of course is dealt to target opponent. With furnace of rath, the damage dealt to stuffy doll is doubled, and additionally the damage dealt to the opponent is ALSO doubled because it is a different set of damage. So this creates a situation in which all damage done to stuffy doll causes QUADRUPLE damage to the opponent. Add more furnaces and/or more dolls, and the deal gets all the sweeter. I just knew that I had to make a deck out of this. I have this great combo, but the only problem becomes actually getting it out quickly enough, or at least stalling until the combo can be unveiled. Obviously the primary color of the deck should be red to utilize burn spells and the furnace itself, but red is probably the absolute worst color for stalling and deck searching, so a second color is needed. Green is out automatically, and White doesn't stall in a way that really helps this deck, and doesn't search (barring land tax). This leaves black and blue as the ideal secondary colors. I chose black in the end because of the presence of regenerating creatures, wall of shadow, soul burn. dark ritual, death spells, and most importantly the tutors. The reason I am writing to the deck garage is because I am not exactly sure of the all the options available for this kind of deck, and I'd like to pick up the cards I'm missing before the tournament. The format is vintage, and there's quite a tasty prize to be had. Well anyways, here's my deck: Thanks in advance ~~~ Mark

 

Land: 20

Swamp: 7

Mountain: 13

 

Creatures: 4

Stuffy Doll: 4

 

Instants/Sorceries: 26

Lightning bolt: 4

Pyroclasm: 4

Shock: 2

Disintegrate: 4

Seething song: 2

Vampiric tutor: 2

Dark Ritual: 2

Diabolic tutor: 2

Terror: 4

 

 

Enchantments/ Artifacts: 10

Furnace of rath: 4

Darksteel brute: 4

Festering Evil: 2

 

Now, you say that you chose black as the secondary color because it has regenerating creatures to hold off the onslaught, as well as Soul Burn and death spells.  I see no regenerating creatures and no Soul Burn.  Soul Burn you're probably better off without, but I would like to see some regenerators in here-- specifically Will-o'-the-Wisp.  It's fast, it regenerates for cheap, and it even blocks fliers as well.