Scute Swarm You want to constantly have creatures hitting the battlefield, and Scute Swarm is one of the best ways to achieve this
Survivors who invoke his name once too often find themselves hunted down and killed as Altanak desperately tries to suppress the painful memories of its own origins
Archived from the original on November 29, 2014
Each of those, like the Darkness Crystal, will reduce the mana required to cast a spell in its appropriate color by 1, and will cost four mana two of the color of choice, but the rest is unique to each Crystal
Now you do need to have a location in your hand for his effect to do anything, but with some smart mulliganing and/or a good amount of draw, that should be consistently achievable on curve
Ben has his list set up to play a longer, more interactive game at the expense of explosiveness, and he makes his mulligan and gameplay choices based on this philosophy as well