Said store also didnt really have an active EDH scene yet, mainly the same five or six people playing what in my eyes seemed to be two-to-three-hour games which from a distance looked tiring and confusing
1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
Once on the battlefield, Liesa acts more like a tax effect, forcing your opponents to lose two life every time they cast a spell
Oh, and this doesnt count for mill purposes as those are tied to a keyword
If you were playing fair, there was no way you could compete with that if the deck pulled it off and many games were won simply due to a willingness to play a card this powerful, allowing such decks to win long games they would otherwise be lost in
The goal of Scapeshift decks is to get enough Lands in play so that when you cast Scapeshift, you can find Valakut and enough Mountains to burn the opponent out all at once