Not only does Venerated Rotpriest protect all your creatures through the threat of Poison counters, but its also strong offensively
Lotus Petal is perfectly intricate
By temporarily phasing out Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, after summoning a card, you can still cast the spell without having to exile it , allowing you to rinse and repeat until your opponents have been reduced to despair
(for my sake, Im going to call these variants.) Every rare in this set, with three exceptions, has two variants
While this looks like you can discard it and cheat it out for greatly reduced cost the need to have a four power dork in play makes this super unreliable and slow to the point of being more than fair
Magus of the Abyss - See The Abyss above Necrogen Mists - A powerful effect, but (a) it's a little bit too slow compared to the likes of Liliana's Specter, and (b) doesn't net the card advantage of Syphon Mind Oppression - Unfortunately, this doesn't stop your opponent from casting their most important spells - it just tacks on a tax
