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Dark Ritual [Explosive Mana Acceleration] Dark Ritual is the purest example of black trading stability for speed

For starters, a couple of game types like Draft require you to buy in, just like paper (though in all fairness, they're not the 'norm')

Wild Nacatl key creature in aggro decks such as Naya or Zoo

1 Chaos Warp 1 Reverberate 1 Bile Blight 1 Bituminous Blast 1 Brainstorm 1 Dark Ritual Artifact (10) 1 Drach'Nyen 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Assault Suit 1 Sol Ring 1 Talisman of Creativity 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 Worn Powerstone 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Wayfarer's Bauble Enchantment (5) 1 The Horus Heresy 1 The Ruinous Powers 1 Nurgle's Rot 1 The Lost and the Damned 1 Warstorm Surge Land (38) 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Foreboding Ruins 1 Sunken Hollow 1 Barren Moor 1 Crumbling Necropolis 1 Molten Slagheap 1 Temple of the False God 1 Command Tower 1 Dismal Backwater 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Forgotten Cave 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Swiftwater Cliffs 1 Terramorphic Expanse 8 Mountain 8 Swamp 8 Island Blue (3) 1 Lord of Change 1 Heralds of Tzeentch 1 Brainstorm Black (14) 1 Blight Grenade 1 Great Unclean One 1 Mandate of Abaddon 1 Mortarion, Daemon Primarch 1 Nurgle's Conscription 1 Plague Drone 1 Poxwalkers 1 Sloppity Bilepiper 1 Tallyman of Nurgle 1 Venomcrawler 1 Nurgle's Rot 1 Decree of Pain 1 Bile Blight 1 Dark Ritual Red (17) 1 Aspiring Champion 1 Bloodthirster 1 Dark Apostle 1 Keeper of Secrets 1 Khrn the Betrayer 1 Knight Rampager 1 Let the Galaxy Burn 1 Bloodcrusher of Khorne 1 Chaos Terminator Lord 1 Herald of Slaanesh 1 Noise Marine 1 Seeker of Slaanesh 1 Past in Flames 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Chaos Warp 1 Reverberate 1 Warstorm Surge Multi colored (18) 1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 Blood for the Blood God

On top of that, it punishes aggressive and card-hungry opponents by letting you draw whenever they attack with multiple creatures, draw their second card, or cast their second spell during a turn