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That said, Jace, Architect of Thought is just too good to share the limelight with Ral Zarek

9 - Dawns Truce Half Surge of Salvation and half Teferi's Protection, Dawn's Truce allows protecting permanents and combos from removals, yourself from combos and other types of interactions for a lower cost than the most comprehensive card, but also greater than Surge of Salvation

I know a lot of people like this card ironically, but I think its a great way to start the list and have another metric to go by

If you love value, youll play these cards

Decks with big creature counts but smaller bodies like Hate Bears and Midrange that can turn their Cloudblazer and Gaddock Teeg into beaters and cast them from the library are awesome

You can still hold allies and artifacts for an opponent's turn, but you really want to make use of the you get when this attacks