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Emissary Escort Another slightly off-the-wall card, I'm throwing this one in the mix to posit the question: is some kind of affinity deck viable in Standard right now
This is a deck that can sneak in some lore here and there with characters like Banzai, Gluttonous Predator and Shenzi, Head Hyena, then closes out games quickly with Ed, Hysterical Partygoer
Merfolk is a beloved tribal theme with a long Magic history, and Hakbal is one of the strongest Merfolk commanders ever printed
But the steeper mana commitment, plus the fact Phenax technically does nothing on its own, locks it more into the role of build-around/win condition
The only decks that existed for some time were ramp decks featuring Field of the Dead, and 22 Small Probe, Big Problem (Gitaxian Probe) Sometimes, it only takes a small and unlikely spell like Gitaxian Probe to cause some serious damage