gix mtg card Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor Foil from Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) Proxy You may play land cards and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. MTGNexus - Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Destroy each creature not chosen this way

Once you have enough mana to do everything you want to do, extra lands can become dead cards they no longer impact the game at all

So while Counterspell might be able to deal with any threat, most times you'd be better off drafting Dark Banishing or Incinerate so you could drop early creatures, and then use the removal to mop up afterwards instead of having to wait for your gracious opponent to walk into your untapped Islands

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2 Fluttershy Don't let defender fool you, Fluttershy's here to dish out damage

If this spell was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn