grief card mtg The Five Stages of Evoke—Exile a black card from your hand. Grief Retro FOIL #7 |

It attacks without tapping and requires at least two blockers

You'll be discarding and drawing cards almost every turn with Sauron, so include creatures like Chasm Skuler, which grows when you draw cards, and Archfiend of Ifnir, which will punish your opponents when you discard

This card reads: If damage would be dealt to Phyrexian Vindicator, prevent that damage

So while you pay a bit more in total to destroy an artifact, you get the flexibility of a 1-drop creature, and the option to cantrip this into ramp

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Power creep has made this less appealing, but Coiling Oracle is still perfectly respectable in decks that care about exploiting ETB abilities