Rakdos Madness Burn is a fast aggro-combo deck that wins by chaining discard outlets like Faithless Looting and Kitchen Imp into free spells like Alms of the Vein and Fiery Temper, backed by Lightning Bolt for reach. Weather the Storm is your best answer to their burn-heavy gameplan, gaining substantial life off each of their spells and buying you the time to stabilize with Pestilence and Cauldron Familiar loops. Duress comes in to strip Faithless Looting or a key piece of burn before they can cascade — hitting their card draw disrupts the whole madness chain. Nihil Spellbomb, Tragic Slip, Tithing Blade, and Heritage Reclamation are too slow or situationally irrelevant against a deck that can kill you on turn four; your core sacrifice engine with Cauldron Familiar and Fanatical Offering provides incidental life gain that pairs well with Pestilence to lock up the mid-game.