Huatli, Warrior Poet

so, again, how does giving her ult the option to deal damage to players remove the ablity for her to build board? why would giving her the ability to finish off a player at three hp make it so she can’t make 3/3s against a full health player? it doesn’t add much, but what it can do with that can make the difference on occasion.

anyhow, since you pointed out Ramunap red,you probably don’t realize burn and RDW are two completly different decks. one is built to deal lethal mathematically fast as it can without dying, and RDW exists to keep metas from becoming way too top heavy.(fyi during khans block in particular Abzan whip/midlate/control was getting so top heavy people could literally throw 41 one drops into a deck and beat them cause of how slow and late game they were.) both forms of mono red are supposed to balance out the game, one by being able to counter fast, high interaction decks with super cheap removal and face damage and the other by punishing decks that want to play six 8 drops. But by giving every color fast cards now 80% of standard meta is aggro, which is why WotC needs to stop printing ridiculously aggro cards for every color and let the game go back the natural order.
Until then, burn has to pick up the slack by bridging the gap between control and offensive capabilities. but right now it costs more to deal three damage to a creature or player than it does to make a 3/4, which is why standard is so bad right now, because the most mana efficient way to fight these cheap, massive creatures is to play your own cheap, massive creatures.

oh, also that modern burn deck didn’t run any cards newer than Khans, and no burn newer than RtR, and Ramunap red is an rdw that only runs 10 burn spells, four of which can’t hit face, and another four are Shocks. so there’s also that math.

I think I’ve made my point, but to clarify, I wasn’t sticking up for the previous poster, I was saying that this PW is powerful enough without an extra burn option bolted on.

Also, I do actually appreciate the difference between Ramunap Red and the kind of pure-burn decks that you’re talking about, but the latter is (even) less likely to run this Huatli than the former in any case, even if she had the change that you’re suggesting. And, I mentioned that GP-winning modern deck because it won against the current meta, not because I somehow wrongly believe it contatined new tech. And, I remember Khans standard like it was yesterday, and it was more nuanced than that.