There was, however, a deck that nobody had played the previous round, but several people knew, and literally none of the decks from this round did better than go even against this deck: If this deck goes first, it casts blackmail, and it makes you discard your land, or your black lotus, or whatever you were going to use to make mana
A card like Deathrite Shaman may be great for high level tournament play due to the nature of that format, but it's much weaker here
All Sunday Attribute Strike Block icon 4 Effect [On Play] If your Leader's type includes "Baroque Works", play up to 1 Character card with a type including "Baroque Works" and a cost of 4 or less and up to 1 Character card with a type including "Baroque Works" and a cost of 1 from your trash
If you don't control one, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Zombie tokens you control have trample
So, what did you think of The Emperor [27-098L]