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The goal of this deck is to set up for an OTK with 2 wheel spells. This is accomplished by getting out Punisher cards, the best being Bloodchief Ascension, Liliana's Carress, and Megrim, which all damage on discard. Nekusar, Underworld Dreams, and Fate Sticker damage on draw. While the latter are less effective, they are more consistent as not all Wheel cards require discard and many shuffle into the deck.

A value card such as Waste Not, Library of Leng, Notion Thief, or Underwold Breach is ideal but not required to make the deck work.

The setup if followed up by Wheel spells such as Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, Winds of Change, etc. Wheels that discard are preferable because the best Punisher cards only damage on discard and not draw, hence why I run Wheel of Fate, Memory Jar, and Whispering Madness even though they are slower than some shuffle wheels like Winds of Change, Windfall, Jace's Archivist, etc.

Hopefully I manage to Wheel into another Wheel and if I have 3 damage per wheeled card set up (from a large number of combinations of Punisher effects) I can deal 42 damage to the table and close out the game.

To get to the amount of mana I need to go off, I run lots of ramp, including the cheaper Moxes, a full set of Signets and Talismans, as well as fast mana cards like Dark Ritual and Lotus Petal. Waste Not is in incredible card for this purpose and I often search for it.

When things aren't going my way I have lots of counterspells to both protect my board and slow down my opponents. I also run a good number for tutors for finding the missing pieces to go off. I have considered Gamble but the discard scares me a little in this deck. I run a few cantrips and draw spells which are there in case I don't draw into a Wheel and need to go deeper into my deck.

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