For competitive players, the set marks a shift in the meta too: Steel Song decks have seen a jump in popularity
BPhillipYork: This is not good but people will think it is, I mean it's fine if the way people win is by chipping at your life over a long time, but once they have enough power on the board to actually kill you they just won't draw the card, so it falls into that group-hug stuff, only good if you have a way to profit off your opponents draw, quite a bit
While some strategies can work great in both situations (like sacrifice), others work almost exclusively in one or the other
The Shadows combine well with the sacrifice mechanic, inflicting double damage when you sacrifice a creature and your opponent sacrifices a creature
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