Overview:

A sacrifice-focused deck led by Fain, the Broker, utilizing various sacrifice outlets and death triggers to generate value through tokens, counters, and card advantage, with multiple infinite combo potential.

Primer:

This deck operates as a value-oriented sacrifice engine with Fain, the Broker serving as both a sacrifice outlet and value generator. The primary gameplan involves setting up recursive sacrifice loops using creatures like Reassembling Skeleton and Putrid Goblin alongside various sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar to generate infinite mana, tokens, or death triggers.

The secondary strategy involves grinding out value through death triggers with cards like Pitiless Plunderer, Marionette Master, and Agent of the Iron Throne while building toward a critical mass of resources. The deck can win through combat damage with token armies, drain effects from death triggers, or through various infinite combinations involving untap effects and sacrifice outlets.

Weaknesses:

The deck is heavily reliant on having sacrifice outlets and creatures to sacrifice, making it vulnerable to graveyard hate and mass exile effects. Rest in Peace effects severely hamper the deck's ability to execute its strategy. The deck can struggle against heavy counterspell-based control strategies that prevent key pieces from resolving. The mana base could be improved with more utility lands and better fixing options.

Top 10 Most Impactful Cards:

• Ashnod's Altar
• Phyrexian Altar
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Marionette Master
• Skullclamp
• Reassembling Skeleton
• Thornbite Staff
• Dross Scorpion
• Dictate of Erebos
• Thousand-Year Elixir

Attribute Ratings:

• Speed: 6/10
• Resilience: 7/10
• Consistency: 6/10
• Interaction: 5/10

Rating Justification:

This deck sits firmly in the focused/optimized casual range due to its ability to generate significant value and potentially win through infinite combinations, but lacking the speed and consistency of higher-powered decks. While it can assemble game-winning combinations, it typically needs several turns to set up and lacks the fast mana and tutors to consistently threaten early wins. It performs well against other 6.0-6.5 decks but would struggle against faster combo decks or heavy control strategies in the 7+ range.

Final power level rating: 6.0 - 6.5