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Hellblazer.

Description of deck by it's author (quoted):
Another fun deck my playtesting group was canoodling around with was a B/R reanimation deck. The first pass of the deck was geared solely towards the reanimation aspect; Book Burning and Buried Alive filled the graveyard with singletons of goodies like Anger, Laquatus's Champion and Petradon. Stitch Together and Zombify got the creatures into play. And the deck rocked.

Until we figured out that if you just took the six damage when you tried to use Book Burning to get to instant threshold, the deck tended to fizzle since there wasn't much other burn to force an opponent to let it resolve.

The deck was pretty much a one-trick pony - a very fun pony, mind you, but not that well trained. If it didn't kill you by turn 5 or so, it didn't have a lot of gas to finish the job.

Since then, "Hellblazer" been getting fine-tuned. The reanimation aspect is still there, but it's not the main focus. There are more "punisher" spells added to put more pressure on an opponent and force through spells:

The addition of Browbeat and Breaking Point give the deck the extra "oomph" it needed to get over the top in terms of forcing an opponent to make "six of one, half a dozen of the other" decisions. Take six from a turn 2 Book Burning? Fine. How about five from a turn 3 Browbeat? Then a turn 4 Book Burning?

The deck has good early disruption with Mesmeric Fiend and Cabal Therapy, and once you get to threshold - not as difficult in this B/R deck as it is with others - Stitch Together can get you a 12/12 Magnivore or game-winning Laquatus's Champion from the graveyard. Magnivore is usually your instant victory condition. In a deck that is sorceries and nothing but sorceries, it tends to get really big really fast, and at four mana is very easy to hardcast. The lone Laquatus's Champion was included for the fact that it can win you the game instantly if you can get an opponent down on life.

Recoup is a card that really shines in this deck. You can flashback spells cheaply and efficiently - and, of course, it's a sorcery, thusly making the Magnivore happy as well.

Like most B/R decks, this one has some problems - namely, no way to deal with problematic enchantments like Solitary Confinement. Tri-color decks are difficult to pull off in OBC, so splashing green really won't work. With Hellblazer, you pretty much have to pay your money and take your chances.

The deck also seems to occasionally hit a "hiccup" between the midgame game, when you're using early disruption, and the late game when you're dropping the Magnivore for the win. It can't always maintain the gas going from first to fifth. Still, it's a lot of fun to play and might be something you see as OBC tournaments start ramping up.

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by Dave Meddish @ www.starcitygames.com

COMBO: Book Burning - Stitch Together