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Chris Taylor

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I'm pro "sweepers you can play outside of a hard control deck"
Make aggro players respect the threat even if there's not islands across the table, you know?

That's a REALLY tough road to hoe, but if we can get there I like it
 

Chris Taylor

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Can you give some examples? Only thing that comes to my mind is By Invitation Only.
Winds of Abandon is the only one I think I've put in an aggro deck, and I don't love how final it is, but it does fit the bill.
Delayed Blast Fireball has its issues (especially without other fortell in a cube) but it specifically does the thing

If you move up to midrange the space opens up:
Crippling Fear is really great at killing basically all but one creature on a board, and you can go harder to make it better for you.
Harvester of Misery (along with any ETB sweeper) leave you at least one creature, so they can work
Calamity of Cinders from the bloomburrow commander decks has other problems, but you can play this in your deck with 14 creatures in it for sure.
Any Earthquake works, since you can sculpt it around your board size.
Flame Sweep/Firespout is another cool idea with sculpting potential, and I prefer it over Breath Weapon/Fiery Cannonade for being easier to build around, but that could be fixed via the environment.
The Meathook Massacre probably maintains its price point via EDH players discovering this phenomenon.

Also its me, there are customs:
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None of anything I've listed works perfectly, but I much prefer an inconsistent sweeper that more than one drafter a night can put in their deck over another copy of wrath or 5 mana wrath plus.
 
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