Colors initially suggested were yellow, brown, orange, and purple, but yellow was rejected because it was too close to gold (rare), and brown was rejected as being too gloomy
If an effect exiles Summon: Esper Maduin and then instructs you to return it to the battlefield, it remains face up in exile (unless that effect instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed, in which case it returns as Summon: Esper Maduin)
Let's look at my top cards from The Lord of the Rings
Black Skinrender Grasp of Darkness Painsmith Bleak Coven Vampires Necrogen Scudder Fume Spitter Instill Infection Skinrender and Grasp of Darkness are some of the best removal in the set, but there is a pretty steep drop off from there
Because you can just fill your deck with big booty Creatures, you can win a game in an instant by playing Phenax and then just tapping everything
A 3/3 flier for two mana that lets you Crew your smaller creatures like Thraben Inspector or Toolcraft Exemplar is every bit as great as it sounds, and it creatures a pressure vacuum very quickly by letting you filter your hand with card draw and begin sculpting a gameplan almost immediately
