Whether you are stealing creatures, animating them, or destroying permanents and fetching Forests, this powerful cycle will have an immediate impact on multiplayer games everywhere
Again a mixed bag here, but we've got some absolute banger reprints like Reanimate and Ruinous Ultimatum, plus for new cards the commanders are great (as always) and we've got some crazy good new cards like Kefka, Dancing Mad which is one of the best reanimate targets
The only proxy allowed in sanctioned play is typically a judge-issued proxy for a narrow set of situations (like a card becoming damaged during the event)
Fortunately, players start with 40 life and black provides access to spells like [card]Exsanguinate[/card] that refill your life total, so paying one per card usually isnt too painful
Once youve accelerated this into play, you get more mana than you know how to spend