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Building a Better BUG in Kaldheim Standard

https://twitter.com/dominharvia/status/1376307467383103490 After some success in the Standard Challenges with Sultimatum and 4c Doom, I wanted to see if I could build a deck that kept the elements I liked from each while avoiding the weaknesses (namely, Ultimatum's clunkiness in a format increasingly moving towards RUG Adventures with a lot of cheap interaction as well as Mono-Red and Rogues, and Doom's need to play cards like Omen of the Sun or Elspeth's Nightmare to fuel Doom and Yorion).  I had worked with Kyle Boggemes on his list of 4c Doom that had Esika's Chariot over Archon of Sun's Grace - at that point, the only white cards were Omen and Doom Foretold so cutting the fourth colour seemed like a less radical step. The basic formula I knew I wanted was: - 4 Heartless Act + 4 Eliminate along with 4 Extinction Event. The two-mana removal is necessary for keeping up with Mono-Red (or Cycling, or aggressive starts from Rogues) as well as stopping RUG from pl