During Journey into Nyx design, we were looking for an effect for a black inspiration card and it dawned on us that maybe this would be the place to put King Midas
Check out Stephen Menendians deck from the 2011 Vintage Championships: "Stephen Menendians 2011 Vintage Champs Deck" Creatures (10) 3 Trygon Predator 4 Dark Confidant 1 Blightsteel Colossus 2 Vendilion Clique Spells (36) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 4 Force of Will 4 Gush 4 Spell Pierce 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Ponder 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Preordain 1 Fastbond 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Sensei's Divining Top Lands (14) 1 Island 1 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Polluted Delta 1 Volcanic Island 2 Tropical Island 3 Underground Sea 4 Scalding Tarn Sideboard (15) 1 Ancient Grudge 2 Ingot Chewer 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Lightning Bolt 1 Mountain 2 Pyroblast 1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Tormod's Crypt 1 Yixlid Jailer Trygon Predators role is clear in Vintage: munching on Moxes
I agonized over whether this card was even worth including for a while, since you draw so many cards and have so much to do with your mana, but I think there are enough important creatures to find at different points of the game that its worth having
I realized I really wanted to play three Nihil Spellbomb in the maindeck, mostly because I was siding it against almost every deck in the format, so keeping it in the sideboard felt like a wasted slot
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (FIN) $33 Blood Artist, but goes Super Nova and turns its death trigger into an emblem
