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Additionally, if it's in a player's opening hand, they are able to start the game with Leyline of Anticipation on the battlefield

Mythic rares are designed to feel special, whether that means a story-important character, a game-changing threat, or a card so powerful that it may just end the game outright if left unanswered

Almost every black deck in Modern plays Thoughtseize in some capacity, and without it, the format would be much worse-off

It’s the best of both

Stacking counters gets out of hand quickly and can easily help to gain you well over 100 life over the course of a game given how many angels have lifelink

Thanks to its ability to create Treasure tokens, Captain Lannery can feed the likes of Ichor Shade or Compleated Huntmaster , which work with artifacts just as well as with creatures

That’s not quite Fathom Mage, but it can still do a huge amount for you

Even more notably, there has been a rise in spells that could just cast themselves from the graveyard, either via something like Flashback or Aftermath, or else have another spell cast them (Halo Forager, for example)

A reasonably good board position can now easily overpower a Jitte where that was near impossible when it first came out

The former doubles a creature’s power and toughness until the end of turn, while the latter has the spell deal five damage to a creature with flying

We weren't going to do this joke again, but apparently it's required in a contract somewhere