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Defending players hate blocking your worst creature, but in this case that opens up your repeatable mana sink to put the drain on a pour soul

Faithless Looting 9 The best discard tool on offer by quite a significant margin

Suddenly, your removal doesnt line up, blocks stop working , and the creature you needed to kill is untouchable

Trostani was just as powerful as Id imagined, allowing me to crawl back into games I would almost certainly have lost

You have to play some mostly-mediocre cards, you have to get them into your graveyard to start with, you have to replace a draw to get it back and mill yourself and there we have the crux of the problem

But the green and black themes make them interesting inclusions in a deck like Meren of Clan Nel Toth