{"ops":[{"insert":"Bladewing is a Rakdos Dragon reanimator deck built around putting expensive Dragons into the graveyard and returning them for substantially less mana. The early game should establish mana with Sol Ring, the Signets and Diamonds, Mind Stone, Worn Powerstone, Thran Dynamo and Urza's Incubator while using Faithless Looting, Entomb, Buried Alive and Gamble to stock the graveyard.\n\nBladewing is both a threat and a reanimation spell. Its best targets are normally Dragons that immediately change the game, such as Balefire Dragon, Scourge of Valkas, Utvara Hellkite or Hellkite Tyrant. Bladewing's Thrall should usually be discarded rather than cast because it returns automatically whenever a Dragon enters. Dragon Breath works similarly, returning from the graveyard to give most of the deck's large creatures haste.\n\nThe deck has considerable reanimation redundancy. Reanimate, Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, Necromancy, Exhume and Victimize handle individual creatures, while Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding and Balthor the Defiled can rebuild an entire graveyard. Patriarch's Bidding naming Dragon is particularly dangerous with Scourge of Valkas because every returning Dragon generates damage triggers.\n\nNecropotence, Phyrexian Arena, Greed, Graveborn Muse, Syphon Mind, Night's Whisper and Skeletal Scrying provide independent card advantage. This is important because Bladewing supplies recursion rather than cards in hand.\n\nWorldgorger Dragon forms an optional combo with Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead or Necromancy. Repeatedly exiling and returning your permanents can generate unlimited mana from lands; Scourge of Valkas converts the repeated Dragon entries into lethal damage. Always ensure another creature is available as a reanimation target before deliberately starting this loop.\n\nAgainst fair decks, simply reanimate large Dragons, attack in the air, and use Bladewing's pump ability to increase combat damage. Save mass reanimation until several meaningful Dragons are already in the graveyard.\n\n"}]}