But white does offer some alternatives: Drogskol Infantry continues to be probably the best two-drop in the set, Fleeting Spirit only needs one first strike activation to punish opponents, and Estwald Shieldbasher is as mighty as ever mightier, when you can throw Ancestral Anger on it every other turn
That one-mana investment can save a ton of life points, and then produce a powerful disruption effect for just three mana
After all, cards that were worth 30 bucks back when I was selling them 10 years ago are wroth ten times that today
Meanwhile, the upside of creating two big Constructs and tutoring up any number of potent artifacts is incredibly high
Ancestral Recall For the cost of just one blue mana, you can either draw three cards or force your opponent to draw three cards with Ancestral Recall
Then I can check for overlaps of 2 (or if the rest of the sheet is nearly complete I sometimes only go with 1) and assemble the complete sequence