dark ritual mtg card • Summer Magic (SUM) #99 Add 3 black mana to your mana pool. Dark Ritual (#1170) (borderless)

JACKDAW SAVIOR While Jackdaw Savior doesnt explicitly say Bird anywhere in its textbox, it does like creatures with flying

The manabase for a Commander deck is usually the most important part of the deck that also ends up being the most neglected

While Taiga isnt legal in a lot of formats, its the best Gruul land whenever it can be played

The ability to protect you the turn it comes down combined with its obscene amount of draw makes The One Ring absolutely absurd in constructed play

Magics current lead designer Mark Rosewater has a deep dive on these mechanics and their lasting influence on the game I highly recommend as further reading

Recursion is certainly a way to offset this, with cards like Eternal Witness, Archaomancer and more giving you a second shot at saying Nope! If your playgroup is pretty casual, watch out for doing this too often though