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a board chock full of artifacts) and her variable energy cost ability allows her to really grow in power as the game progresses

The general template for a mana curve looks like this: 1 Mana: 12 cards 2 Mana: 78 cards 3 Mana: 56 cards 4 Mana: 34 cards 5 Mana: 23 cards 6 Mana: 01 card and 17 lands

Must Come Down There are plenty of ways in the Gruul combination to ensure that a creature gets big enough so that Minscs Fling ability could take a player out of the game, which is certainly something to keep in mind when building around this card

If we lean on being creature-heavy then we can take full advantage of noncreature hate cards like Thorn of Amethyst and Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

The result was a ban tour across Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and anything else that tried to contain him