Variety s next preview card is Blasphemous Edict: Calling back to all-star red board wipe Blasphemous Act, and the classic instant Diabolic Edict, which spawned the term edict being used to describe cards that force players to sacrifice a creature, Blasphemous Edict does justice to each
3 damage is a really important breakpoint at the moment, due to how many 3 Willpower characters there are in the meta that can come down on turns 2 and 3 and Smash deals with them efficiently
Its a tricky deck to play and even trickier to play against
At worst, its a Cancel, the usual any target counter
Arcades, the Strategist Arcades, the Strategist is the go-to Bant commander for playing with walls and defender creatures
Thanks to its ability to draw a card the same turn it enters the battlefield as well as protect itself the following turn due to phasing out, Kaito is almost a surefire way to draw two cards for three CMC (converted mana cost)