Aurification I have to be honest: Effects like Aurification are relatively bad as youre essentially taking the damage before getting the benefit from the card
While Fact or Fiction can be used in a lot of traditional decks, theres enough new stuff that some of our assumptions about what control decks even look like might need to be reexamined
Theres really not much more to say about this
I did want to specify that this list wont be focused on cards like Counterspell because those cards do so much more than just protect you from board wipes
(Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .) Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward
As the game unfolded, Garfield filled my tape recorder with the origin stories of Magics unique vocabulary (mana, damage, and tap are among its terms of art), all the while steadily, relentlessly, backing Sam into the corner from which he would not escape