Strahd's Descent 1x Strefan, Maurer Progenitor as "The Devil Strahd" 1x Bloodletter of Aclazotz as "Cast-Off Consort" 1x End the Festivities 1x Voldaren Estate as "Castle Ravenloft" It's a shame that Wizards went with Strefan instead of Edgar Markov to finally give us the iconic Strahd von Zarovich in Magic
Opponent is getting a massive creature OR planeswalker, even if they are cheating it into play so you can't counter it
This degree of agency you have over these activations means that you may only be revealing a card to the Augur 57% of the time, which is already a really high percentage for the low mana investment, but youll be dramatically more consistent at finding what you want to draw, whether lands or spells
Wingrattle Scarecrow Wingrattle Scarecrow only has conditional persist, but at least its a 3-mana 2/2 with sometimes flying which was a lot better back in the day
Even with this bit of caution, this is a solid 4-pocket binder
There is a relative lack of control decks that punish you for overloading on spot removal, and the controlling decks that do exist are Caretaker's Talent and Domain, which are so vulnerable to the Excruciator combo that it doesn't actually matter much that you have many removal spells in your deck
