In a world of removal, who needs creatures anyways?
Sure
Prognostic Sphinx
is great at staying alive and
Ashcloud Phoenix
can rise from the ashes and all, but then I thought, why waste a turn casting these creature at sorcery speed and have to use up resources to keep these guys around when I can just melt my opponents face off instead? Thus was born this ball o' fire. The idea of you, as a planeswalker, taking matters into your own hands and deciding to use your mastery of magic to kill your opponent without resorting to the help of other beings and fellow planeswalkers has always been a thing I've enjoyed.
Dictate of the Twin Gods is the absolute MVP here.
Furnace of Rath
with flash? Sign me up! Not only that, having a Howling Mine with flash with Dictate of Kruphix just speeds up the inevitable Crater's Claws
+
Dictate of the Twin Gods
, Dictate of the Twin Gods
+
Master the Way
or any other burn to the face for lethal.
Swan Song ensures any finisher gets off and doesn't fizzle, leaving you stranded.
Crippling Chill
adds a last second effort to keep creatures at bay that weren't
Nullify
ed, while also getting a cantrip.
Casting Font during 4th turn allows for mana to stay open for reactions while allowing it to be activated 6th turn in hand with DotTG being casted opponent's end step. Along with another burn spell, assuming consistent land drops, should be lethal in most cases.
The sideboard
Aqueous Form
may look strange, but I can play it on an opponent's creature in an aggro matchup and get scry triggers off their swings, working as a deterrent from swinging with small stuff unless they want to give me scry 1. It's a form of very soft control. It'll be entertaining, at the least, to side in place of Swan Song and is the type of play that makes a statement. A statement of what, who knows, but they'll be talking about that play all day for sure.
Also, I'm too poor to add Keranos, God of Storms.
Note: As much as I love Dig Through Time, I can't seem to get enough cards into the graveyard to reliably cast it. Looks like I'll be riding the Steam Augury train for awhile.
