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Devil creatures, while not usually powerful by themselves, slowly chip away at your opponents' life totals, one damage at a time

I've talked in the past about how I came back to Magic in 2010 after a hiatus over a couple years

(A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters

Magister Sphinx Dropping someone straight to 10 life is a huge power move, and Magister Sphinx does exactly that the moment it enters the battlefield

While this would require your opponents to be drawing all the time, thankfully, thats hardly uncommon in Commander

Spined Thopter 3/10 Although this ticks a lot of the right boxes (no need of colour to play, an artifact, an evasive body) it is still a very underwhelming two drop with very low power level