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It costs eight ink to bring Maui into play, and you can only add one ink to your inkwell per turn, so hes essentailly designed to be a late-game bomb

You can build around self-mill or regular mill or +1/+1 counters or some amalgam of all the above

Lands and artifacts that can become artifact creatures arent included here

Purposely Overpowered: Orlandu, to match up to the story that seems to imply him to be someone who is extremely powerful

I was pleasantly surprised to find I could make three different White aggro decks that felt like they had their own strengths and weaknesses while being competitive overall

Hydroid Krasis Once a beast in Standard (literally), Hydroid Krasis is still respectable in any format where dumping a bunch of mana into a serious threat that draws you a couple of cards is a worthwhile investment