Complimentary Win Condition Gates can complement other strategies incredibly well
Your cards are going linger, ready to be used and pulled back alike
Wait for the card to render
With hasty creatures dying, our hand growing, and mana exploding how does the deck actually close out the game
(I am, btw, going to take the physical ring from that game to use as my tempted by the Ring marker)
Scenario 2 Grief / Village Rites Turn 1 You Play Grief, exiling a black card Cast Village Rites, sacrificing Grief Draw 2 cards Remove a card from opponents hand Turn 1 Opponent Turn 2 You Cards in hand: 4 Cards in opponents hand: 5 Result: You end up with approximately the same result as Scenario 1, except you each have slightly more cards in hand