Sacrifice them to the Phyrexian Altar or the Krark-Clan Ironworks to generate more mana to make more robots
Muddle the Mixture: 3 mana value counterspell (on instants or sorceries) with the Transmute ability, which allows you to discard it to search your library for a card with the same mana cost and put it into your hand
Those strategies are cards that gain value from discarding (especially lands), cards that can allow you to play many lands, landfall, and cards with leaves the graveyard triggers
Assassins Creed: Starter Kit If youre an Assassins Creed fan whos new to Magic: The Gathering altogether, however, the best place to start will be with the Assassins Creed Starter Kit
In other formats, paying some amount of life as an additional cost can be quite the drawback, Death's ShadowDeath's Shadow aside, but in EDH we have access to a lot of ways to turn this into an added benefit
Tempo decks play cheap threats like Delver of Secrets and back them up with interaction like Spell Pierce or Fading Hope to stay ahead