And after all my hours working on Kain and trying to get it right, Dillon came up with a version that I thought was just perfect
With Sapphires access to ramp being so strong, it only takes Fishbone Quill and a couple of spare ink to present a massive issue
In our opinion, the Sapphire/Steel starter deck is the better of the two for a few reasons
If you cast a creature spell this way, it gains haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature." Activate only as a sorcery
Its also a hugely threatening attacker, especially paired with Monstrous Rage for Trample
This archetype attempts to get around that by having most of your equipment cards enter play already attached to a 1/1 token, meaning you can play many more of them without losing your aggressive curve, and you dont need to worry about paying to equip them until after that first bearer dies and you need to stick them on something else