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But once all our slivers gain devoid, suddenly they are are able to take advantage of spells that look for one or more colors on permanents

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may move a counter from this artifact onto that creature

The deck is an aggro deck, getting the ways to get your Dragons out as soon as you can so you can start snowballing

there was some land destruction, so playing two mox instead of a swamp would pick up another win

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The Bard is also credited with the first known usage of over 1,700 words we use today, as well as many common idioms like break the ice and all that glitters is not gold. All of this is to say: hes had a pretty big impact on art and the English language as a whole, so its not surprising back when Wizards of the Coast was using real-world flavor text that they went to the Shakespeare much more than a couple of times