Gifts can also include creating a Treasure token (providing mana) from Blooming Blast, granting an extra turn from Perch Protection, or generating an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token from Octomancer
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#9: Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation Ojer Taqs only flaw is that its prohibitive cost makes it something of a win-more card
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This mostly comes up in Cubes that try to get away from blue being the color the just counters things and attempts combos, though its also not all that difficult to see a controlling deck successfully leveraging a removal spell that grants the monarch, however inefficient that removal spell might be
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