Being able to reduce or remove Retreat Cost can make switching out cards much easier during a match, and only having to use 3 Lightning Energy to pull off a multi-attack like Multishot Lightning is unreal
Whenever Gollum, Scheming Guide attacks, you get to look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then have your opponent guess land or non-land for the top card
At level 2, youre able to give an attacking creature +1/+0, while at the third level, you can draw a card if you control a creature with a power of four or more at the end of your turn
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Now, a barrage of upkeep triggers from Subversion and Palace Siege wont exactly lead to an engaging play experience, but they do reinforce a unique take on the archetype: slowly draining the table until one player finds themselves at a slightly lower life total than the others
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