Protecting your combo from countermagic while recurring cards like Frantic Search and Snap sounds promising
I dont really like the gamble here though, as it reminds me of Clinquant Skymage (which was generally mediocre)
Plus, as I mentioned, many of the top decks in Standard are skimping on removal, and when Emeria Shepherd sits on the battlefield for a few turns, the amount of value it generates is almost always game winning
Pros & Cons A comprehensive collection of one of Magic: The Gathering's most recent releases
(We have since brought back "cast" to lessen part of this problem.) The joke that most people miss was that we asked the artist, Stephen Daniele, to give us an illustration that would like one thing one way and like a different thing upside down
Creatures (22) 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Lovestruck Beast 4 Giant Killer 4 Edgewall Innkeeper 4 Skyclave Apparition 4 Kazandu Mammoth Planeswalkers (1) Lands (19) Spells (18) Ross paired Battle with Starnheim Unleashed last week and I expect Battle to overperform in this deck