There are also some very nice reprints with Mystic Forge, Caged Sun, Gilded Lotus, and Living Death, making this likely the best deck in the bunch for reprints
Most control decks on the other hand are either going more the direction of the agro decks and getting card advantage alongside their other effects from cards like Consecrated Sphinx or planeswalkers or they are running a card advantage engine such as Life from the Loam
Having trample is a nice bonus, as the creature can't simply be chumped blocked when it attacks
But more importantly, how well do the cards capture the flavor of the Final Fantasy Universe
It also means that not every deck needs to be running a full set of Power Nine either, with cards like Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise being highly accessible cards
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