The Face of Boe

The Face of Boe is all about cheating suspend spells onto the stack by paying their suspend costs instead of their full mana costs. Suspend cards like Wheel of Fate, Crumbling Sanctuary, and Living End are naturally expensive to cast, but their suspend costs are dirt cheap—so Boe effectively turns them into budget cards. Your gameplan is to set up a steady stream of these discounted spells while Boe sits back and enables them, turning what would be a slow strategy into something genuinely efficient.

You'll build around suspend creatures and spells that have outsized impact relative to their suspend cost. Cards like Fury, Dress Down, and Profane Tutor all suspend for way less than their casting cost. The deck plays a tempo-control shell that protects Boe while he accumulates value. Once you've cast a handful of suspended spells, the card advantage and tempo swings add up fast. You're not trying to win Turn 4, but by the mid-game you'll have cast multiple premium spells for a fraction of their real mana cost, putting you ahead in resources and ready to close out games through damage or incremental advantage.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.