Meanwhile, for UW Flash, you have a bunch of value creatures, and while banning any one of Archangel Avacyn, Spell Queller, Selfless Spirit, or Gideon, Ally of Zendikar would hurt the deck, none of those cards really stick out as being too good in a vacuumthey are just very strong when combined together
Elves is really good, but Elves is also cheating on the definition of Tribal
Because if there's one thing I want you to take away from all this, it's that rarity is not the end-all, be-all of evaluating Magic cards
Personally, when I have cards that can fit into more than one of those columns, such as Utter End, I select the primary reason I want them in the deck
That's made worse by the fact that players must mill three cards every time they use Winter to attack
It draws so many cards, in the color with the best flicker engines like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Displacer Kitten