Phase Dolphin can be blocked, sure, but it lets a creature get in for some non-zero amount of damage as one sees fit
At the time, the Rules Team was pitching the idea that all face down creatures would be vanilla (meaning having no abilities) 1/1 colorless creatures
Twists and Turns / Mycoid Maze Twists and Turns is only as good as the number of explore creatures youre playing, but if thats even a minor theme of your deck this is probably an auto-include
I find that cards like this tend to perform better in constructed, where you can have a really sweet manabase, than in cube, where as an aggro deck you have to cobble together a bunch of mismatched duals and pray it all works
Andril, Flame of the West Aragorn and Arwen, Wed Aragorn, the Uniter Arwen, Mortal Queen Dawn of a New Age Gandalf the White Glamdring Hew the Entwood Last March of the Ents Mount Doom Palantr of Orthanc Radagast the Brown Saruman of Many Colors Sauron, the Dark Lord Sauron, the Lidless Eye Shadow of the Enemy Spiteful Banditry Storm of Saruman The One Ring The Watcher in the Water Tom Bombadil Witch-king of Angmar
Poison is a highly contentious mechanic in its own right, loathed by many for how suddenly it can kill and how hard it is to counteract
