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With the Mox Ruby and just a few red spells, you can win a game

Commonly played examples include Aristocrats where you sacrifice something like Reassembling Skeleton to a mana free sacrifice like Ashnod's Altar and then trigger the Zulaport Cutthroat to hit all foes as your win-con or hitting with Guttersnipe and similar triggers in a Spellslinger deck for your instant and sorcery casts

If you missed the pre-order window, the second-best strategy is waiting

Then when an opposing dork dies you can return an artifact from your graveyard to your hand

Once youve built enough ink, Amber characters such as the Seven Dwarfs step in, giving you strong Lore generation while holding the front line

As a starter deck, Blackbeard provides a stable baseline to learn core game mechanics such as resource management, trash utilization, and board control