Miss Fortune

Dazzling Aurora is the featured deck's way to stop paying full price for its expensive units. At the end of your turn it finds a unit, banishes it, then plays it ignoring its base Energy and Power costs. Elder Dragon is the most important payoff: while you control it, any positive amount of your damage is lethal to enemy units. That turns Flurry of Blades from a one-damage spell into a threat to every opposing unit at a battlefield. The damage still has to get through.

• Early gamePrioritize Mobilize or Catalyst, plus a way to find the missing part of the hand. Their runes enter exhausted, so the ramp is mainly for future Energy; recycling one for Power now spends part of that future. Bloom and Stacked Deck help find Aurora or the next usable play. Stacked Deck puts a card into your hand and recycles the others, so it does not arrange a chosen Aurora hit on top. Send back excess giants and unsupported resurrection spells. Captain is your first dependable body, and paying for Accelerate is worth considering when an immediate conquest or rune ready changes the turn. Do not spend every early turn drawing while the opponent takes uncontested Holds.
• MidgameDecide whether you can afford the Aurora turn. Nine Energy and two Body Power is the real bill, with no immediate attack from the unit it plays at turn's end. Sabotage can remove a non-unit answer from the revealed hand before you commit; Mindsplitter can discard any card when its play trigger resolves. Keep a suitable unit in the trash for Heedless. The target must already be there before you pay the spell's additional cost by killing a friendly unit. A different Mindsplitter in the trash can replace one being killed, but the same physical copy you just sacrificed cannot be its own target. Both printed Energy and Power must fit the sacrificed unit's costs. Killing Captain does not buy a seven-Energy, two-Power Mindsplitter.
• Late gameOnce Elder is established, protect the part of the turn that converts the clear into points. Flurry can remove the battlefield defenders while Elder stays safe at base, then a ready Captain or another threat can take the field. Elder's play trigger can also hit one enemy at each location, including base, but a target moved away from its original location can escape that trigger. Baron makes your other units bigger and may bring Baron Pit into the game. Units can move into the Pit from anywhere; leaving it for another battlefield still needs the normal permission. Last Rites lets its equipped unit replay a unit from the trash when it conquers or Holds, but you still pay that unit's costs. Keep the relevant target in the trash instead of recycling it to pay Equip. If the game is one attack from ending, spend the resources on that attack rather than another Aurora you will never need.