mtg lotr borderless cards Magic: The Gathering Expansion Tales From Middle Earth – Characters, & formats Put a burden counter on The One Ring Gandalf of the Secret Fire

You always start the game with your combo piece in hand, and the format has so many threats to cheat in besides the Ripper: Patron of the Vein, Markov Enforcer, and Crossway Troublemakers are just a few of the big vamps that this Rakdos commander puts into play unreasonably early

You can use this to put oil counters all over the place by casting it every turn, and there are definitely reasons to do that

If you dont mind working a little harder to get its strategy to work (its a little trickier than the more vanilla Amber/Amethyst deck) then it will repay you in spades with a more powerful, thought out gameplay

It's a powerful prison effect for control decks on the Reserved List

Youre then able to use instants to build storm and finish off your opponent (hopefully) with a Brain Freeze

Updraft is like the opposite of Gravity Sphere, but without being a World Enchantment, and being super efficient to cast at just a single blue