Similarly, the deck wasnt quite fast enough to compete with the decks that went bigger
Now, the issue with Novablast Wurm is that it kills your own stuff too, but given its powerful board presence, that's an acceptable consequence of the card
The kicker cost is nice because it allows Chocobo Kick to take down a much larger range of possible targets, but it also guarantees you a land drop to trigger landfall
Additionally, while The Queen's Castle only costs four ink to play, it will give two lore and has a defensive willpower of seven
Additionally, by paying one generic and one black mana and sacrificing an artifact, you can give target creature -2/-2 until the end of turn
"Tug-of-War" is great at sending out pinging little damage across the board to your opponents, which will fuel your strategy - and it doesn't hurt that, in a pinch, it can wipe out a lot of evasive enemy characters