If youre worried about losing your exerted character from your opponents challenging it, just make sure you banish everything that could challenge it with Grab Your Sword or any of your own direct challenges
Why would you play Noxious ThrongNoxious Throng over Time WarpTime Warp unless you're making a fun deck
But when a lock piece shuts down your play preemptively, it does so before that choice can even become apparent, before that decision tree has the chance to entertain you with its possibilities
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I can also see Empyial Storm doing great work in a Boros deck such as Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder plus whatever, as the angels benefit greatly from haste (Anger) and can get silly with a Warstorm Surge out