Ive written about this elsewhere, in particular about how the tempo swing from casting Dismantling Wave is worth way more than the main phase double exile on Return to Dust these days
It was just another deck in the format, and was a pretty big underdog to decks with a lot of interaction (Jund, Abzan, etc.)
Token decks already love a one-sided wipe, and leveraging artifact tokens or lifegain is a common sub-strategy in white decks as is
There is a lot of ramp in the deck, meaning you can build a huge mana pool quickly with cards like Khalni Heart Expedition, Font of Fertility, and Omen of the Hunt
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