The one rule of lifegain: sources feed payoffs A lifegain deck has two halves, and it is dead without both: Sources cards that gain you life, ideally incrementally and repeatedly (lifelink, whenever a creature enters triggers, upkeep gainers)
The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
The Jolly Balloon Man Rating: 5/10 Perhaps the most horrifying artwork in the entire set, The Jolly Balloon Man is a powerful card that doesnt feel like it has much of a home here
Late game a 2/2 version of Branch of Vitu-Ghazi might not seem very exciting but in specifically those decks a colorless Gray Ogre might be better than yet another contributor to flood
While the card design of Commander Masters was well-regarded, the set itself courted controversy through pricing issues
It should be pretty easy to activate Spinerock Knolls ability, given how much damage I can unleash at my opponents