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For those of you not in the know, not only will it keep you alive at least temporality, but also has the same ability as a Black Lotus (as long as you have a creature)

Tom Bombadil How good will this deck be

At the time of writing, the deck list has yet to be revealed

Its redundancy for removal, sure, but at the end of the day it triggers itself and triggers your other effects, twice, because of Offspring

There are currently many flavours of counterspell in Modern, but all of the two-mana variants have some pretty sizeable drawbacks

Meanwhile, instants like Scout's Warning are great for catching your opponents off guard, with cards like Darien, King of Kjeldor letting you make an army of tokens with the right timing