Bant Lifegain is an archetype that could use more love
If you use Lion's Eye Diamond or Black Lotus alongside Brain Freeze, though, you can continually cast each of these cards over and over again
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Card styles for over 100 cards, spread across card rarities and sets
TYPE-CASTING MY TYPE-SPELLS I wanted to use the end of this article to inspect some of those elite types, and highlight how they each take the core strategy of typal decks in a different direction
On the other hand, cards like Rest in Peace and Relic of Progenitus are still likely better for most controlling decks that don't really care about having a 2/1 body and don't have any meaningful creature synergies