Affinity needs a plating in the opening hand , that ' s basically it . Burn get to spend 6 mana , and 89 playdraw cards , over the course of 3 turns . If every mana deals an average of 3 damage , you ' re dead . Now the question is , what ' s the manadamage ratio of burn spells ? 13 for all the direct burn , a little more for GGSwiftspeareidolon getting 2 attacks in . Also sitting at 3 vs burn isn ' t far from T 3 kill , because your creatures and removals are now dead cards . UR is played more than RG valakut and burn o <| sep |> At my church , the two teenage kids of the janitors decided one day to spray axe over an entire floor of one end of the building , ugh it smelled like axe for like 3 weeks . <| sep |> And this question came exactly from this lack of belief .