Theres also a Cultivate in this deck, and while the artwork is still hilarious, it does let you grab more land cards, which should help with playing some of the decks more powerful creatures and sorceries (theres a handful of 7+ mana cards)
From Persistent Petitioners:The last ability of Persistent Petitioners allows you to ignore the "four-of" rule
EX1-052 U Digimon Lv.5 Etemon Color Black Cost 8 DP 7000 Digivolve Cost 1 Black 3 from Lv.4 Form Ultimate Attribute Virus Type Puppet Card Text 1 [Effect] [Your Turn] When this Digimon digivolves into a Digimon card with [Etemon] in its name in your hand, reduce the memory cost of the digivolution by 1
While we already saw the power of Thalia in powered formats, where she can hate out combo decks and slow down sweepers, such as in the Five-Color Humans deck above, the card has also enjoyed a great deal of success as just a good card for aggressive, creature-heavy decks. Creatures (27) 3 Fiend Hunter 4 Champion of the Parish 3 Avacyn's Pilgrim 3 Mayor of Avabruck 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 2 Restoration Angel 3 Sigarda, Host of Herons 4 Silverblade Paladin 2 Druid's Familiar Lands (25) Spells (8) While Thalias ability is so good, she would likely see a fair bit of play even without first strike, its actually the first strike that really gets her over the finish line
2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon For a lot of fans of classic Yu-Gi-Oh