Burning Oil is just fun and amazing in Limited
As a relatively new player, I went 2-1 in a casual draft with my playgroup today. People say that R/W is bad in DKA/Innistrad, but splashing White was amazing for Burning Oil. There was so much value in it, since it was so cheap, and when it worked, it just felt good. Burning Oil was, for me, basically a cheaper Rebuke with flashback, but better since it would affect blockers too.
After firstpicking a Huntmaster, I got a 4th pick Increasing Savagery (wtf? I think that everyone else was intimidated by the strong Green signals I was sending along with my friend next to me). I played G/R werewolves splashing White for Burning Oil and an Angel of Flight Alabaster. (My friend ended up not cutting much of the Green stuff since he was playing G/W, not G/R).
Oddly enough, Warden of the Wall helped a lot too. It stopped my opponents' 1/1 spirits from attacking, and it also fueled my Increasing Savagery from the graveyard.
Overall, this was just amazing. This was 5 months since my last draft, and I had accumulated quite some knowledge of MTG over that time, and I had heard but not truly seen how powerful some "bad" or "mediocre" cards could be in Limited. Burning Oil is GOOD, and if I had been passed a Rally the Peasants, I would have taken it too.
Posted Mar 24, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC