mtg swamp cards (273) [Zendikar Rising] Bloomburrow (BLB) #271 Illustrated by John Thacker Magic Magic The Gathering - Swamp

Cyclonic Rift has been a staple of Commander for a while, and regardless of your opinion on that card, it's undeniably pretty powerful to have a similar effect

There really is no wrong answer

With a mono-black deck, you can tend to different strategies (e.g., sacrifice, creature destruction or lifedrain) depending on your own preference

The payoff just isnt super high for building around it

The deduction system cleverly incentivizes you to go to combat

I always though it was fitting that Blue had a reputation of summoning the biggest creatures (re: Polar Kraken) because Blue represented going the deepest in learning about mana