Four words: Silverblade Paladin, Boros Charm. Double strike makes this thing viable, folks. Keep in mind that it works on defense, too. Any creature you control, and instance of combat damage it/they deal(s) trigger this. It's not nearly as unplayable as I'd originally thought—it just (unfortunately?) has a lot of ferocious competition at its CMC.
Posted By:
TzarChasm
(2/25/2013 6:44:59 AM)
@Zambies
Boros Reckoner isn't combat damage
Posted By:
Stevenbutts
(3/23/2013 12:54:58 PM)
Oh, oh, oh, come charge me up a little more
We 'bout to get up, and burn this board
You know we getting hotter, and hotter
Sexy and hotter, let's burn this guy
Yo, what I gotta do to show these creatures that I kill them
Some call me enchantment, and some call me burn
Skeeza, pleez, I'm in Ravnica
Boros, Rakdos , my own guild
Damage,damage that's all I do
If you need a bad burn
Let me call a few
Posted By:
zzxyyzx
(3/23/2013 11:00:27 PM)
Its like Luminarch Ascension for aggro decks.
I borrowed my goblin deck with recently added two copies of Five-Alarm Fire to my friend the other day. He managed to pull it out twice dealing 15 damage in each game. Its awesome in token/aggro deck to both destroying big creatures and finishing opponent. Worked better than Goblin grenade or everything else I tried.
Posted By:
zipec
(6/15/2013 6:28:03 AM)
I used to think that this card sucked, but I put it in my goblin deck nonetheless. Turns out I played it and my friend pointed out that it was all combat damage, not just damage to a player. I ended up winning just through chump blocks and weenie attacks, with this thing burning through my opponent like nothing else.
Posted By:
TheMentalProdigy
(6/19/2013 1:37:57 AM)
I think this is a great card. A player with about a year more recent experience than me thought it was broken as heck, reading it. Running it with Innistrad human tokens ( Thraben Doomsayer, Increasing Devotion) makes a great complement to Kessig Malcontents.
The thing that people underestimate is that this is FIVE damage. Creature, or player, five damage. Someone stacks up big toughness and power against you, kamikaze block, deal him five more on the main, you can kill 10+ toughness easy, or spread it out and kill like three different creatures. I mean, that'll only work once and only if your opponent wasn't ready for it/thinking, but that comes up more often than you might think.
Posted By:
Mr909
(7/1/2013 12:17:42 PM)
No one rate it!
Its rating is 3.333!
Posted By:
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
(8/1/2013 9:47:43 AM)
Fun fact: Five Alarm Five has the word "five" exactly five times on it. (Not counting the 5. That's different.) Rate it 5 stars!
Posted By:
Pathrazer
(8/14/2013 10:46:51 AM)
This would love to be sitting around when a Firecat Blitz or two sweeps through. Throwing double strike around and/or getting additional combat phases is just fun times.
Posted By:
Kirbster
(10/17/2013 11:02:08 PM)
thrull parasite is the semi ultimate fire fighter in this situation.
Posted By:
orzhov20
(11/22/2013 10:21:36 PM)