This buys a lot of time and tempo for the blue mage
Hopefully there are enough options here to give you some food for thought ( braiinnnnnssss !) as you brew your next black deck
There are three primary ways to win with tokens: You attack with enough creature tokens that your opponent cant possibly hope to block them all, You pair your token generation with Mirkwood Bats, Impact Tremors, Zulaport Cutthroat, and similar effects that drain your opponents life total as your tokens enter and leave the battlefield, or You have sacrifice outlets that let you cash in tokens to kill blockers and/or drain your opponents life, like Goblin Bombardment
Shimmering Skies also features a minor re-design to the style of Enchanted cards, making the info boxes take up less space so that the art can properly stretch to every border of the card
Quote Enjoy your games against the skill, than to play one that compares the size of the wallet
Its a Mono-Black take on an extra turn spell: the kind of major color pie break Planar Chaos was well-known for