The simple block colors of each art piece work very nicely with the simple block colors of the frame
Patrick's brilliant deck, Next Level Blue, not only catapulted the phrase "next level" into the Title: Tom LaPille's Next Level Blue Format: Extended 4 Counterspell 1 Academy Ruins 1 Breeding Pool 4 Flooded Strand 1 Hallowed Fountain 8 Island 4 Polluted Delta 1 Steam Vents 1 Tree of Tales 4 Tarmogoyf 3 Trinket Mage 3 Spell Snare 4 Thirst for Knowledge 4 Chrome Mox 4 Counterbalance 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Pithing Needle 4 Sensei's Divining Top 3 Threads of Disloyalty 1 Tormod's Crypt 3 Vedalken Shackles *3 Ancient Grudge *1 Engineered Explosives *2 Global Ruin *2 Krosan Grip *3 Sower of Temptation *1 Threads of Disloyalty *3 Tormod's Crypt This is a blue control deck through and through, playing Counterspell and Spell Snare for early countermagic, the eternally potent Counterbalance and Sensei's Divining Top to lock your opponent out of the game, and Vedalken Shackles
Certainly both of them will be relevant occasionally but they will be very hard to rely on for much
Taken together, Ooze is fine, but not as good as Apparition
A deck focused on graveyard interaction, such as a red-black or red-green land destruction deck, would benefit from using Roiling Terrain due to its ability to both destroy a land and deal damage based on the number of land cards in the opponent's graveyard
They simply come into play, do their thing, and then leave
