Its quite possible that this card is going to become a staple piece of removal in Standard over the next year
The Negativity Trap One problem that new players often run across is, after spending time and money building their first Commander deck, theyll find that the commander they selected has negativity associated with it based on its power level or play patterns, and their opponents may respond in a way that doesnt make their first games of Commander much fun
You can tap Hazel and pay two life to tap a bunch of untapped tokens you control, adding mana in any combination equal to the number of tokens you tapped
This is a lot of fun for messing with your opponents heads, because they can never be sure that they shouldnt block Balan with everything they have
As poison counters steadily climb to ten, your enemies succumb one by one to The Serpent Society's lethal embrace
I actually really love that we are getting some decidedly playable graveyard hate