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Instead of Cycle of Life, try Combine Guildmage, Cytoplast Root-Kin, Emiel the Blessed, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Ivy Lane Denizen, or any other card that just gives creatures a +1/+1 counter whenever they enter the battlefield

This is a unique piece of identification that separates every player's account

Personally, I think Mind Stone is better than its more expensive counterpart because you can play it way earlier

Time counters are usually found on cards with suspend and vanishing, but may be found on other cards as well

Discard as a Theme The idea here is that discard can function as a win condition (in that it can control the game to the point where any small thing can win) and as such is able to carry a theme for a deck