Rakdos Madness Burn operates similarly to Mono Red Madness but with added black reach through Alms of the Vein and Vampire's Kiss — their madness drain spells make Weather the Storm even more critical here since they can gain life and drain you simultaneously, making raw damage races tilted in their favor. Weather the Storm at Storm count 5+ can swing a 4-life deficit into a 10-life cushion mid-combo, which blanks their entire remaining hand of burn. Pyroblast and Red Elemental Blast answer Guttersnipe before it punishes your own spell chaining, which is doubly important in Rakdos since they can also use Faithless Looting to find it faster. Flaring Pain comes in because their Extract a Confession sideboard can disrupt your hand and Duress attacks your rituals — pushing through their disruption with Flaring Pain on a key ritual turn can let you ignore their hand disruption entirely. Trim the slower card draw pieces and First Day of Class since the matchup is decided before those payoffs are relevant.