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Despite other Valgavoth players managing to enjoy magical-Christmas-land, curve into Valgavoth every game, always have a redirect spell, and otherwise do everything I wanted to do, my luck was to always have my Commander removed, countered or stolen

The set also featured "loners" (creatures or other permanents that improve if their controllers control only one creature, which represented the thematic opposite of Soulbond) and a sacrifice subtheme

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Bituminous Blast 's cascade keyword tries to attach removal to a tempo boost, but as with Infested Thrinax, five mana is a lot for something that's not guaranteed to hit