Your deck is pretty likely to have effects that this shuts down, so you have to be careful about when you play it
The Taxes elements come from creatures like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Mother of Runes, making all your opponents spells cost one more and effectively turning off single target removal spells by giving creatures protection from a color of your choice
Basically, we've reached the point where any Magic carddown to Expeditions , Inventions , and other Masterpiece -series cardscan be counterfeited, and with the cost of real Magic cards on the rise, especially in older formats, there is a huge incentive for the counterfeiters to hone their craft and make their fake cards as realistic as possible
(You may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Once Patchwork Beastie is attacking or blocking, reducing the number of card types among cards in your graveyard won't remove Patchwork Beastie from combat
Whenever it connects in combat, it deals damage, draws cards, and gains you life based on the number of different color pairs you control
Instead, I selected Coreys list as an example of the strategy of playing Inquisition of Kozilek, but not Thoughtseize, in order to conserve life points (most commonly in control decks without access to much good lifegain)
