Hero card

Archmage of Runes

Creature – Giant Wizard

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Spells

Gives: Card Draw

Not in winning lists yet: read from the card text and the graph

Build a deck with Archmage of Runes as the hero

Makes it work

Arcane Epiphany · Circle of Power · Mana Sculpt · Command the Stage · Choreographed Sparks · Turn Inside Out · Ancestral Anger · Anzrag's Rampage

Benefits from it

Astrologian's Planisphere

Use instead if you don't have it

Alania, Divergent Storm · Arcanis the Omnipotent · Blighted Blackthorn · G'raha Tia · Bard, King of Dale · Benthic Criminologists

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · Bitter Triumph (Dimir Aggro)