This is a combo race where both decks can win as early as turn two or three, so the primary goal is to threaten a kill faster than they can assemble Basking Broodscale plus Blade of the Bloodchief plus Glaring Fleshraker. Orim's Chant is your most powerful tool: cast it on their combo turn to prevent them from casting spells entirely, or tap their key creatures before they can attack with a lethal Broodscale. Their post-board Damping Spheres are the most dangerous hate piece — they tax your rituals and cap your storm count simultaneously — so Prismatic Ending and Wear // Tear come in as flexible answers to Damping Sphere, Blade of the Bloodchief, and Walking Ballista. Flashback gets cut partly because their Grafdigger's Cage shuts it off, and the slower card-selection pieces (Artist's Talent, Valakut Awakening, Glimpse the Impossible, Wish) come out in favor of interactive sorceries and instants that let you either stop their kill or push through their hate. Be mindful of Emrakul, the Promised End: if they're threatening to cast it, prioritize killing them the turn before rather than holding up Orim's Chant.

Izzet Prowess is a fast aggro deck that can race you if you stumble, but it has no interaction with your combo outside of the sideboard's Consign to Memory and Spell Snare. Your primary game plan remains the same — go off as fast as possible, ideally on turn 2 or 3. Empty the Warrens comes in as an alternate win condition that can close the game on a smaller storm count if you're worried about disruption, since a board of 8+ Goblin tokens is very difficult for them to beat through without Meltdown. Brotherhood's End gives you a clean answer to their entire board if they flood out with Monastery Swiftspear, Dragon's Rage Channeler, and Cori-Steel Cutter. Trim Glimpse the Impossible and a Flashback as they're the lowest-impact cantrips when you need to prioritize speed.

Affinity is a race — their clock is fast, but post-board they become a disruption deck with Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, Vexing Bauble, and Grafdigger's Cage all threatening to strand your combo. Orim's Chant is your best tool here: cast it on your combo turn to blank their entire interaction window, preventing Metallic Rebuke, Consign to Memory, or any other instant-speed answer. Wear // Tear handles the permanent-based hate, cleanly answering Grafdigger's Cage (which shuts off Past in Flames and Flashback), Vexing Bauble, and Engineered Explosives before they can disrupt your setup. Empty the Warrens provides a graveyard-independent kill for games where Grafdigger's Cage resolves and you can't immediately answer it — even a modest token army is often enough against a deck that trades life for card advantage. Trim the slower value spells (Artist's Talent, Flashback, Valakut Awakening, Glimpse the Impossible) since this matchup rewards explosive speed over incremental card advantage.