Card Name Mana Cost Type Sorcery Rarity Rare rules Text Choose one or more -* Exile all artifacts.* Exile all creatures.* Exile all enchantments.* Exile all graveyards
Being this large for this price at the time was an outstanding deal, even if nowadays it doesn't look like much, and the bonus life points were like adding insult to injury, causing players to wince looking at their hand that little bit more and do it again when you cast additional black spells
Its mostly a sideboard star but it can swing counter-wars heavily in your favor
2010-06-15 If an activated ability of a creature you control costs no generic mana to activate (for example, if it costs , it costs , or it costs only nonmana actions such as or "Sacrifice a creature"), Training Grounds simply won't affect it
While thats a good pairing, Giott is a little lackluster when you dont have that going, which definitely knocks it down a couple of points