"Dictate of the Twin Gods: Sudden Death"

"Dictate of the Twin Gods: Sudden Death"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. 

It is now the 5th turn...You have 5 open mana and 5 2/2 creatures on the battlefield thanks to Burning Tree Shaman and a full hand of creatures on turn 2. For some reason you do not attack your wary opponent and you have waited for this particular turn before going on the offensive. Puzzled your opponent lets the 5 creatures through. Before damage dealing is done you cast this card...

Yup and just like that your opponents has been reduced to zero life in a Flash. Your opponent is now wary every time you have a lot of creatures and 5 mana open. He or she will be ready next time.Or will they? All I can say is you could switch things around and kill people with direct damage instead of the creatures that they are expecting.

Of course there is an alternative to this if killing with creatures is not your thing. Instants or Sorceries can do the just for you as well.3 Damage from Bolt of Keranos or Lightning Strike is nothing to sneeze at. It turns creatures and players alike to cinders in no time at all especially with this card in play.Double the damage equals double the fun as they used to say(though Im sure it was a ton of goblins who said that before).

Red and White are the colors that have the most battle trick cards.Red has some very good cards for dealing double damage but this is the first time an enchantment suddenly pops out and declares it , an Instant Furnace of Rath. As I was writing this I saw Launch the Fleet and Twin Flame. Token producers in those very colors. More tokens in play means more damage. Launch the Fleet is deadly in a weenie effective way and much easier to cast than the latter but then again it never hurts to have redundancy. 

I would love to see how many people I could kill with this 5 to cast Red enchantment. However I could always play mind games and not attack and just cast a Fanatic of Mogis on the 2nd main phase with these many creatures. 4 Burning Tree Shamans and a Zhur-taa Druid and a Fanatic of Mogis on turn 5. That easily translates into 10 damage with or without attacking. Hmmmmm....

Well now to even more evil thoughts using the cards from Journey into Nyx...