The deck is incredibly difficult to meaningfully disrupt, and will compete at the top level in all but the most hostile metas.2022-03-19 [HISTORIC] Thrasios Tymna E-MANOUTDATEDA sans-red version of midrange Ad-Naus, with asymmetrical hate pieces and more storm.2022-03-19 [HISTORIC] Thrasios Vial Paradox ScepterOUTDATEDA stormish deck which focuses on using Thrasios as both a noninfinite and infinite sink.2022-03-19 [HISTORIC] Sisay ParadoxOUTDATEDA Paradox Engine combo deck which can switch between fast combo and stax gameplans.2022-03-19 Winota StaxCOMPETITIVEWinota Snowball Stax seeks to be an explosive stax combo deck that wants to play nonhuman creatures early and then play its commander
this adds an entirely new dimension to the theft spell
To make those tokens, we need to put a lot of counters on a few of our nontoken creatures
Give Your Opponents Thalassaphobia Krakens writhing, crashing, horrible terrors of the deep
[14] [15] [16] In 2026, Mark Rosewater noted that the Reserved List doesn't prevent different, and possibly better, versions of the cards being printed
For a creature type like this, which makes good use of disposable creatures (see: Blood ArtistBlood Artist and Viscera SeerViscera Seer) and spreads +1/+1 counters around easily (see Drana, Liberator of MalakirDrana, Liberator of Malakir and Cordial VampireCordial Vampire), those 1/1 tokens are a huge advantage