The neat thing about Rat Colony though, is that it doesnt force you to only use other cards with the same name, you can fit twenty of them into a Rat-themed Commander deck and not have to worry about not having enough other copies of it
The dark side of Magic isnt going away
Gavin Verhey went into a bunch of such combos here, so rather than tell you all the shenanigans you can do with Cloudshift (and theres a ton, except for flipping Fathom Seer), Im going to give you a sense of how to play the format
A flash enabler grants flash to, most broadly, all spells, but we often see this ability limited to something like creatures or sorceries
It's a ghostly chicken, and you have to appreciate just how nasty-looking the warty chicken looks
Ive struggled to keep Solemn Simulacrum in some of my Twobert designs, but in larger Cubes, especially in environments that incentivize players casting spells for six or more mana, Solemn Simulacrum is a solid card for many decks that doesnt realistically run the risk of being too powerful