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In most cases, you can get away with playing Sanjis Pilaf to get the resources you need for later in the game

I weigh this list towards Commander, though a handful of these cards see broader play in other MTG formats

Recent trends have only made pausing for such effects that much harder

Declaration in Stone, Stasis Snare, and Reflector Mage are off the table, mostly limiting options to Ob Nixilis Reignited, Planar Outburst, Tragic Arrogance, and back-door Collected Companies as common ways to remove this threat as of the current Standard format

But making a ton of creatures is inherently a win condition once you get enough of them, and the threshold for enough can be lowered very easily with any number of finisher cards

If youre feeling particularly nasty, you can even get double value from these tokens by using Darkest Hour to make all of their tokens fully Dimir, getting some extra discard alongside your draw