Due to the immense resemblance and many developers shared between the two series, particularly Yasumi Matsuno, the game can be seen as a Creator-Driven Successor to Tactics Ogre
As another example, if at the start of turn six you have five cards in your inkwell and hold a two-drop, a three-drop, and a five-drop, then just cast your five-drop and dont add anything else to the inkwell at this point
Casting a few cheap mana rocks under an Etherium Sculptor is enough to make this a pure X spell
Brallin deals burn damage and grows in stats while Shabraz gains you life
I've built decks before with unintentional combos in them, and if you steal a way to copy spells and cast an extra-turn spell, you can go for it
Aside from there being some solid options for Bird cards in Bant, like Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, there are also cards like Murmuring Mystic and Flurry of Wings that can create Bird tokens for you