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She is a premiere control asset that can single-handedly force a total surrender

This deck is aimed to be as consistent as possible, running 12 total shift targets and eight total shifting Characters that work for those targets, making it more likely than not you will get the cards you need to get this deck up and running when you play

Its pricey, but a functioning aristocrats deck should have multiple redundant sacrifice-and-draw effects anyway, so its better to think of it as a backup plan in case your hand goes pear-shaped

These spells are particularly good for any landfall effects, giving you a guaranteed trigger on your next turn as well

Creatures that have a cool ability that triggers when they enter the battlefield (ETB) can be found as far back in Magic: The Gathering s (MTG) history as Alliances , but Visions , released in 1997, was the first MTG set to truly lean into this area of card design