If youre especially wary of counterspells, you can also throw a Vedalken Orrery in this deck and just cast any big spells you have during the combat phase
A lot of very conscious compositional choices were required to make these illustrations work on the cards, and as such, I wanted to catch up with the artist, Andreas Zafiratos, and see how he brought these micro-fiction in miniature to life
Forgotten Ancient The first card made by the public vote was this four-drop 0/3 rare Elemental that when anyone, your foes or you would cast those spells, toss a +1/+1 counter here and then in your upkeep you can redistribute them to any numbers to other dorks
You play anti-deckout cards like Lass, Fuji, and Gambler in part to balance out the necessary Professor Oak, and those tradeoffs are worthwhile
Its actually a pretty sweet commander, and this is sort of where the rankings start to hit an upward trend
Kwain is everyones best buddy, and very pet-able