UPDATED MARCH/2022
Belcher is a tournament deck designed to kill your opponent, preferrably, in turn 1 (or soon thereafter) using Goblin Charbelcher. The idea is fast-mana cards in order to acquire enough mana so so the player can cast Goblin Charbelcher.
Ideally , the Belcher player will also activate it on the same turn for the win with the burn effect.
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Belcher is considered one of the fastest decks in the format. So much so that the community often uses the term "belcher" to describe a "glass cannon" strategy - a glass cannon is a deck that is often so dedicated to a specific combo that it lacks on defenses to survive interaction.
Although the deck may run 0-2 lands, it is considered one of the Landless strategies along with Manaless Dredge and Oops, All Spells.
The usage of lands in a Belcher deck (usually Taiga) became a meme in the community. It's almost tradition for a player to replace it with the most expensive version of Stomping Ground one can find as if to say "this could be a Taiga, I could afford it. But these 2 life just doesn't matter".
The alternate Belcher strategy is to win via Storm with Empty the Warrens to create a huge army of Goblin tokens.
Since Belcher is a Landless strategy, the deck Oops, All Spells may also run it as a backup win condition to dodge Graveyard-hate.
The strategy is also present in Modern
The deck Oops, All Spells improved greatly with the printing of the spell-lands (e.g.: Turntimber Symbiosis), but there hasn't been much experimentation undergone in the Belcher deck - and possible new decklists - besides those that originated Modern's decklist.
The deck can be made without the usage of Reserved List cards by replacing Lion's Eye Diamond and the (already optional) Taiga.