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Wow, we need the last few creatures but they don't seem to be coming this way...

By the way, has anyone tried Havoc Festival ? I haven't... But it looks like it might achieve something in a deck with some burn spells such as ours.

When you cast Havoc Festival with an Explosive Impact or Annihilating Fire in your hand, the life-halving hardly affects you - unless the opponent also has burn.

First of all, if the opponent is at 10 life (or 11 life), obviously you can pass the turn to drop the opponent to 5, then try to burn out the opponent with Explosive Impact on your next turn's upkeep. 

But even if the opponent is at 20 life, it's not so different. You can pass the turn (opponent at 10 life). The opponent can attack you hard on his/her turn but it won't matter unless it's lethal. On your upkeep, your life gets halved but halving your life doesn't kill you (unless you're at 1). Then, on the opponent's upkeep, s/he drops to 5 life and you can burn the opponent out before s/he gets to attack.

If you're holding Annihilating Fire instead of Explosive Impact, you can still do the same thing except the opponent needs to be at 15 life when you cast Havoc Festival. The opponent's life drops 15->7->3 with just two upkeeps. Your life gets halved once during the process, but it shouldn't matter because halving your life doesn't kill you, and if your burn resolves, you won't have to get attacked after your life total is halved. 

This assumes the opponent isn't running counterspells like Dispel , and that the opponent doesn't have his or her own burn spells. So it won't always work this way. But now that I think about it, it does seems powerful.