Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
The point it is, even if you lose a bunch of resources along the way, Valgavoth can absolutely take over
The corrupting reach of the Phyrexians is now multiversal, penetrating planes both familiar and unknown
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Ive found Final Fantasy to be one of the best balanced formats in years, so there isnt an unplayable color pair
If someone uses a copy of Wood Elves to fetch a forest, just flash Deep Gnome Terramancer out, and youll be ramping alongside them