It was even pretty good at shutting down artifact ramp decks
Crackdown lets you stop powerful beat sticks with upside such as Pako, Arcane Retriever before they get out of control
You actually get all the casting triggers from the first three Eldrazi titans, so the card has excellent flavor as well
Just make sure youre keeping track of how many basics are in your deck, because paying a life to fetch sucks when you miss, particularly when you were counting on gaining a life from your Courser Going back to Courser builds, lets take a look at a Courser build that gets two fetchlands, but only one of which is green: Bant Midrange 3 Plains 3 Forest 2 Island Astute readers may have realized that it is the allied Shard combinations that have access to double fetchland manabases
Imposing Grandeur I originally overlooked Imposing Grandeur since Crimson Vow and its Commander decks had a million red wheel effects for some reason
Being able to pay life and draw a card before you commit to spending more life to draw more cards is insanely powerful