Some of the last spoilers shared includeda version of The Gold Saucer that came with a theme-appropriate luck mechanic
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade Lavinia, Azorius Renegade is a 2/2 human soldier for that restricts your opponents casting of noncreature spells to those with mana values less than or equal to the number of lands they control
The importance of Counterbalance can change between being more a bait spell for their taxing counters or Abrupt Decay to a game-ending spell
As such, I'll be back with a follow-up piece next week talking about the commanders that should've been in the set
When your opponent does play a powerful creature, use a removal or counter spell to get it into their graveyard and boom, pay a paltry amount of mana and that puppy rises again, but this time on your side as an unholy abomination of itself
If your library contains fewer than X cards, you'll put them all into your hand