However, since increasing deck size hampers your ability to actually find your key cards, it seems that it's only worth it for one-card combo kills and you should play lots of tutoring and filtering cards so you can find them faster
Introducing Lier, Disciple of the Drowned: The look for Lier was really fun to play with, Senior Art Director Taylor Ingvarsson enthuses in response to my question about Liers visual design(s)
Culling the Weak Weve looked at a few cards that sacrifice creatures to generate mana, but Culling the Weak does it the best because it turns a creature of any size into 4 mana
Then, Natures Revolt turns all of our lands into 2/2 creatures, helping me take out a chunk of his life points as all my lands would hit my opponent for 2 damage apiece
Finally, Ashling, Rekindled is a 1/3 that transforms into Ashling, Rimebound to generate more mana
That trade looks unfair on paper, but stopping a game-winning spell while giving up a small flyer is an easy choice