4: There is one new card that appears in all four decks
Avenger is ultimately stronger, but they both make plants equal to the number of lands you control (Phylath specifies basics, sadly)
1-9 lets you Flashback a spell, 10-19 lets you cast it for 1, and 20 is going to let you cast it and whatever other spells youve exiled with it for free
Upgrade Goals Based on our analysis of the deck I will focus on the following upgrade goals: Enhance our Politics theme Enhance our Elf theme Swap our card draw for better options Add another board wipe if able Remove any card that doesn't fit our Politics / Elves themes or are thematic but too weak The way I upgrade the precon changes heavily between the LOTR-only upgrade section and the regular upgrade section: the LOTR-only section will enhance our Elf theme without much enhancing Politics because there's no real political cards to add from the main set
This helps protect some of your more potent permanents, like Ghirapur Orrery, or return saga cards like Elspeth Conquers Death for more value
Ob Nixilis is a six mana Black 4/4 that makes any opponent who does so have to sacrifice a Creature and lose ten life