Snow mana means you need to play the snow land basics, But if you can keep it around (flickering, reanimating, cloning, the works), the ice counters can get okay far
Skirk Fire Marshal Ive never seen this actually work, but Ive heard tales of Skirk Fire Marshal doing work in a goblins deck
Through a few more iterations we got the mechanics to match the flavor, and then it was time to open a whole other can of purple worms: Constructed
Eldrazi Temple was another very good reason to play Eldrazi
Yuna, Hope of Spira allows us to go for a gameplan with the sagas, generating value and bringing them back after finishing
Toss in effects like Silent Arbiter to stop your opponents from ever blocking