Exchange of Words FromTheShire: Cheap, and there's a ton of text boxes you are going to want to steal, whether it's some nasty Annihilating Eldrazi or simply someone's Commander that you really think should have the text of a Saproling instead of whatever nonsense it was doing a second ago
More than payoffs, you really just want as many premium removal spells as possible
Note that theres such a huge variety of Special Energy cards here for a reason: not only do they provide the Energy type (or types!) stated, but they usually also have some kind of unique and useful ability too
Vibrant hues are produced because they offer more excellent visual contrast than regular stock
You spend your fictional dollars on fictional card stock, but the developers arent trying to desperately extract extra pennies from you at the very turn
spells with different names from your GY, this destroys all monsters on the field and you can not special summon any non-Danger