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By sacrificing your own board with it on the stack, and by pre-emptying your opponents yards with anything from a Soul-Guide Lantern to an Author of Shadows, you can simultaneously wipe the board, get a load of EtBs, and slingshot into the lead

You can click on your boast creature after attacking with a creature with boast and pay any costs to activate the boast ability

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The second one is to put creatures from your hand into the battlefield

Having these creatures die and not having anything in the graveyard to reanimate hurts quite a bit, so in the early game, it is sometimes a good idea to try to discard a cheap creature like Evolved Sleeper or Faerie Vandal to Tainted Indulgence or Evangel of Synthesis so we'll have something in our graveyard to reanimate once our Puppeteers and Anointers start hitting the battlefield