1 Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero
Some nice conniving creatures may work well in tandem, acting as ways to filter cards you dont want while also generating +1/+1 counters to spend
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It turns out that Magic players love casting spells for free, even if free in this case is pay seven mana for an artifact and cross your fingers you overcome the randomness to get what you want. The silver lining, of course, is whatever spell youre copying from your graveyard gets to stay there on the chance youll copy it again, unlike many cards of this ilk that exile the spell following the resolution of the copy trigger, so if you can find a way to finesse only one legal target for the Crucibles trigger (perhaps by ensuring the top two cards of your library are lands with something like Senseis Divining Top), then youll get to copy the same thing over and over
Emrakul, the World Anew 13 Toughness Emrakul, the World Anew can be cast for as little as 6 colorless mana with a discard outlet
The card allows the player to banish any number of their items and draw a card for each , making it easy to get a deck refresh in exchange for cleaning up the board a bit
