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Descend, Heartless Angel is a highly tuned, four-colour deck designed to dominate the board with a high-speed value engine before securing an instant-win combination. It leverages the massive card advantage provided by Atraxa, Grand Unifier to consistently out-resource opponents.

The deck's central strategy revolves around two phases:

  • Turbo Value Engine: Utilize a suite of premium fast mana (e.g., Mox Opal, Mana Vault, Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox) and powerful draw engines (Rhystic Study, Smothering Tithe) to ramp Atraxa into play as quickly as possible—ideally by turns 3-5.

  • The Descend Loop: Once Atraxa is on the battlefield, the deck maximizes her impact by using blink and flicker effects like Displacer Kitten and Touch the Spirit Realm to repeatedly trigger her powerful Enter the Battlefield (ETB) ability. This "descending" of Atraxa (flickering her out and back in) restocks your hand with critical land drops, protection, and necessary combo pieces, ensuring you always have an answer or a threat.

Core Win Condition: Protected Instant-Win

The ultimate goal of the deck is to assemble the ubiquitous win condition, which it reliably finds and protects using the value generated by Atraxa and a deep control suite.

The Combo: The deck wins with the Thassa's Oracle and Tainted Pact / Demonic Consultation combination.

Control and Protection

The deck is heavily geared towards a competitive meta with a deep control package to ensure the win condition is found and protected:

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Casual

90% Competitive