Skip to main content SIGN IN Final Fantasy Variants Foil: Vaan, Street Thief (0390 - Borderless) Edition: Final Fantasy Variants Type: Legendary Creature - Human Scout Cast: Rarity: R Collector #: 0390 Pow/Tuf: 2/2 Whenever one or more Scouts, Pirates, and/or Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library
Few decks can pay 10 mana per creature just to get through
Now thats value
I fully expect to see some of my creatures die horrible deaths, so Kithkin Mourncaller might draw me a few cards
The Commander metagame is magnitudes harder to disrupt, so I look forward to WotC further capitalizing on the chance to explore this design space more through Commander releases
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
