We don't want to be picking up cards we know will never move, but we do want piles of the other stuff to throw into a shoebox until one day the Rules Committee decides that yeah, maybe we should give this a chance again. To better assess whats considered a reasonable banlist pickup, we need to evaluate why they were banned in the first place, and whether or not those reasons will hold ground, say, five or ten years from now
Sly Fox + Sword and Shield Much like a Stealthed Redbreast Robin, Sly Fox is capable of putting out consistent damage every turn, making it a great way to apply early pressure to the board
If you need four copies of something right away, this is how you get them
The latter lets you cast a red or green creature spell for free, then you put three +1/+1 tokens on a target creature, and then you double a creature's power and toughness and give it trample until end of turn
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