I did rather want another four drop as you can see from the number I still had on my short list however none quite made the cut and two (for Birthing Pod purposes) seemed sufficient if not optimal
Typically, these disposable creatures are either tokens, creatures that create tokens, or the subject of this column - creatures that can recur themselves
Card Draw is Mathematical We spent a lot of time doing hypergeometric calculations in the first discussion on mana, so I dont want to dive too deep into that again, although we can use that math to demonstrate exactly why card draw is so valuable
Karlach led me to add in a sub-theme of taking more attacks
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Mono-red was the only really bad matchup