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This deck is a control deck, built around ETB creatures and wizard tribal synergies.
It is powerful, and has a lot of interactions with opponents' stuff, but do not usually wins rapidly: a true wizard is a master of patience.
The main aim of the deck is to slow down the game until the point where we can take everyone else out in one turn.
To do that, we are taking advantage of the eminence ability of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist: when a wizard enters the battlefield under your control, we can pay 1 generic mana to create a token that is a copy of the wizard, with haste, and that will be exiled at the end of the turn. Since it's an eminence ability, it will trigger while Inalla is in the command zone, therefore, it's a "free trigger" and we don't even have to ever cast Inalla during the game!
Some comments about Inalla's ability:
Apart from wizards with ETB, we are relying on the standard "grixis control package" of powerful instants and sorceries to keep our opponents in check (destroy their creatures, bounce their permanents, counter their spells). And since we are playing the long grindy game, we also need a lot of card draw to keep the engine going (don't worry, wizards and blue in general are really good at that).
The main win conditions are the following (I recommend you to not play those card in the early game, but rather keep them as finishers when life totals of your opponents are getting are low enough):
There is also one infinite combo in the deck:
Twinflame + Dualcaster Mage
You cast Twinflame targeting any creature you control, before it resolves you cast Dualcaster Mage, you copy Twinflame, targeting the Dualcaster Mage, which creates an infinite loop (that you can stop whenever you want because you don't have to target something with the last Twinflame that is casted). Then you have a infinite amount of Dualcaster mages with haste who can crush the opponents life total.
(Note that "Spellseeker" can search for "Twinflame" and that "Vedalken Aethermage" can be recycled to find "Dualcaster Mage")
Only a few wizards are very expensive, and they are not really necessary to the game-plan:
A list of alternatives wizards are proposed in the sideboard (reasonable options are for example: Disciple of Bolas, Stern Proctor, Jace's Archivist, etc.)
A few good control spells are expensive, and you can find cheaper alternatives if you want to:
The mana base can also be built on a budget:
Q: When should I cast Inalla?
A: Almost never (unless you're in a very very bad position and have nothing better to do).
Q: Why don't you play sol ring in your deck?
A: This card is broken and I think that a good deck doesn't need it to win (but you can play it if you want).
Q: Why don't you play the combo with Wanderwine Prophets or Timestream Navigator to have infinite turns?
A: A one card combo is not a combo (but you can play it if you want).
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