Losing one card from your hand is a small price to pay to stop a spell that would otherwise end the game on the spot
With so much strategy going into not just the playing of MTG, but also how you build your deck, being able to draw more cards can often be the difference between finding the card you need, or failing to do so and losing
BALTHOR THE DEFILED ( JUDGMENT ) JUDGMENT ) In a tribe this deep, you need a pretty incredible effect to justify a four-mana 2/2 and boy, does the Defiled deliver
Landfall Sin | Commander | Stephen Johnson Commander (1) 1 Sin, Spira's Punishment Creatures (22) 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic 1 Avenger of Zendikar 1 Beast Whisperer 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 1 Eternal Witness 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer 1 Kheru Goldkeeper 1 Lotus Cobra 1 Mossborn Hydra 1 Mulldrifter 1 Rampaging Baloths 1 Roil Elemental 1 Scute Swarm 1 Scythecat Cub 1 Springbloom Druid 1 Springheart Nantuko 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid 1 Timeless Witness 1 Tireless Provisioner 1 Ulvenwald Hydra Instants (16) 1 AEtherize 1 Aetherspouts 1 Assassin's Trophy 1 Beast Within 1 Constant Mists 1 Counterspell 1 Entish Restoration 1 Harrow 1 Heroic Intervention 1 Moment's Peace 1 Pongify 1 Rapid Hybridization 1 Roiling Regrowth 1 Sultai Charm 1 Swan Song 1 Tragic Slip Sorceries (12) 1 Boundless Realms 1 Farseek 1 Genesis Wave 1 Last March of the Ents 1 Rampant Growth 1 Reshape the Earth 1 Rishkar's Expertise 1 Scapeshift 1 Soul's Majesty 1 Tempt with Discovery 1 Traverse the Outlands 1 Villainous Wealth Enchantments (2) 1 Parallel Lives 1 Retreat to Coralhelm Artifacts (6) 1 Amulet of Vigor 1 Arcane Signet 1 Desecrated Tomb 1 Seer's Sundial 1 Sol Ring 1 The Great Henge Planeswalker (1) 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs Lands (40) 7 Forest 7 Island 7 Swamp 1 Command Tower 1 Deathcap Glade 1 Dreamroot Cascade 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Fabled Passage 1 Foreboding Landscape 1 Lotus Field 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Morphic Pool 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Polluted Delta 1 Rejuvenating Springs 1 Shipwreck Marsh 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Undergrowth Stadium 1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth 1 Zagoth Triome Mike and I have some overlap
