Dead Cards and Blanking Cards Anyone who's ever suffered from a mana flood can tell you that games sometimes reach a point where drawing more land is simply not helpful
With the increased amount of blue decks and the addition of Counterspell in Modern, Teferi, Time Raveler shines in locking your opponent playing Sorcery speed only and often clearing the board of Murktide Regents and other threats with its bounce ability
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Earthbending a creature also means you can sacrifice it to something like Zuran Orb and have it re-enter immediately, which is a separate combo that also results in various infinites
R&D has been experimenting with hexproof from X instead, which is obviously much less oppressive, but more broadly were seeing hexproof start to give way to ward as a conditional protection ability, which is a change I think we can all get behind
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