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And now we come to Extended. Whenever I try to cover a card's tournament history in one of these threads, the Extended format seems to be the place that's likeliest to become a mess. The same card can survive multiple rotations and be used in different ways in different times. It gets even...

Perhaps more because of my long-held interest in Legacy as a format than because of sheer coincidence, most of my experience with Rite of Flame has been in either TES or Belcher, the two places that the card found a niche in competitive Legacy. I've dabble with the card in some other casual deck...

In news related to actual gameplay (just don't kid yourself that I'll ever let go of this taxonomic atrocity stuff)... Uh...

This is the last straw. Upon my hostile takeover, the first change at WotC will be the purging of the taxonomic heretics. I will find out who they are, and they shall all be fired... ...from a cannon, into a wall covered with spikes.

I accept your tribute! :p Um, attack with Thunderbreak Regent. Blocks/responses?

UUD, Mountain, Fanatic of Xenagos. Tribute?

I'll sac the Charging Monstrosaur and the Imperial Aerosaur.

:eek:

While TES has probably been the most consistent niche for Rite of Flame in Legacy, the card has also been used in Belcher decks, especially after Belcher decks evolved to use Empty the Warrens as a secondary kill condition. In contrast to Storm decks, which tend to run tutors and card-drawing...

I've got nothing.

Heir of the Wilds, done. Spidey: 15 Hand: 4 Library: 50 Battlefield: (U) Caves of Koilos (T: Add C to my mana pool.; T: Add W or B to my mana pool. ~ deals 1 dmg to me) (U) Scoured Barrens (~ ETB tapped.; When ~ ETB, I gain 1 life.; T: Add W or B to my mana pool) (T) Plains (U) Tormented...

UUD, Frontier Bivoac, attack with Thunderbreak Regent. Blocks/responses?

Block Sailor of Means with Charging Monstrosaur. Block Dire Fleet Hoarder #2 with Dinosaur token.

Oops. Uh, no responses to declaration of attackers. Move to declare blockers?

UUD, Forest, Thunderbreak Regent, done. Spidey: 19 Hand: 6 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T) Caves of Koilos (T: Add C to my mana pool.; T: Add W or B to my mana pool. ~ deals 1 dmg to me) (T) Scoured Barrens (~ ETB tapped.; When ~ ETB, I gain 1 life.; T: Add W or B to my mana pool) (U)...

In a Storm deck or other deck that aims to cast multiple copies of Rite of Flame, the synergy with cards that let the card be recast from the graveyard is profound. In Vintage particularly, the power of Dark Ritual as a mana-production engine with Yawgmoth's Will is well-known. TES achieves a...

Thread necromancy! Hey, this thread's corpse was practically still fresh... So I've probably reopened the old wounds of the Legacy banning of Survival of the Fittest more than anyone else on the planet, even though I didn't originally set out to do that, but I keep circling back around to the...

Anyway, an interesting play that has been part of the TES toolbox is to use Infernal Tutor on Rite of Flame as setup for a kill. Ordinarily, Infernal Tutor is paired with Lion's Eye Diamond. But if you don't have it and can't achieve Hellbent, fetching another copy of the mana accelerant that...

Not helping, Cardboard Crack!

And then you cast Bloodsoaked Champion, right?