

Plus any instants or sorceries you use to set yourself up or protect yourself are icing on the cake since they still generate mana for you. The important thing to remember is that “noncreature” doesn’t mean you have to dedicate to instant or sorcery spells. Kykar’s ability is straightforward in its intention: cast noncreature spells, create tokens, sacrifice tokens for mana, rinse and repeat. But you know what, you’re here to make it happen! Kykar, Wind's Fury isn’t quite a master of armed combat. Even if you knock out the more expensive cards like Stoneforge Mystic, Steelshaper's Gift, Shadowspear, and Anointed Procession, you’ll still find that cards in the $2 to $5 range are plenty in this deck and they absolutely add up.

I also can’t vouch that it’ll ever be budget. You definitely don’t want to play this in any cEDH games. It’s consistent enough to get to its goal as the game goes on and it feels fantastic when it does, but don’t expect to be off to the races here. It isn’t some masterpiece of tight-knit strategy and an impenetrable combo, but it isn’t a deck that plays fast turns either. Sounds kinda wacky, right? That’s because it is. It’s also accompanied by another fun and indisputable damage dealer in Molten Disaster. And of course your finale is none other than one of my favorite spells: Banefire. You run some light control in the form of a removal spell or two plus some counterspells to keep your board as safe as you can while you build up for the finale.

Your board ideally gets set up to start spewing out low-cost equipment for free. To help with that you’re going to bring in a few cards that can reduce your artifacts’ cost and help you cast them for a much cheaper price. That said, you can’t get too high up in mana value or else you’re not going to net anything. You’re going to use that ability to take advantage of equipment spells also being noncreature spells to generate value and win with a big scary Kykar that can slam face for huge damage, or big mean spells that absolutely obliterate your opponents. Kykar has the ability to create Spirits when you cast noncreature spells, and conveniently also has the ability to sacrifice Spirits to add to your mana pool.
