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You see, every time a player draws their second card each turn, they exile the top card of their library

You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it

Grief After years of scams dominating Modern tournaments and supercharging Legacy tempo decks, Grief caught a well-deserved ban hammer in both formats

Trample, haste, annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent.) Hideous Taskmaster's second ability will resolve before Hideous Taskmaster does

Legendary Creature - Human Scout Faerie Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might Trample If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead

Garruk Relentless 6.5 The least powerful of the cheaper Garruk options but this dude does a lot of what you want while being at a nice reasonable four mana price tag