You can also prevent someone from casting a spell with Cascade if you've played a spell that limits the number of spells your opponent can cast (for example, Rule of Law or Archon of Emeria)
While we already saw the power of Thalia in powered formats, where she can hate out combo decks and slow down sweepers, such as in the Five-Color Humans deck above, the card has also enjoyed a great deal of success as just a good card for aggressive, creature-heavy decks. Creatures (27) 3 Fiend Hunter 4 Champion of the Parish 3 Avacyn's Pilgrim 3 Mayor of Avabruck 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 2 Restoration Angel 3 Sigarda, Host of Herons 4 Silverblade Paladin 2 Druid's Familiar Lands (25) Spells (8) While Thalias ability is so good, she would likely see a fair bit of play even without first strike, its actually the first strike that really gets her over the finish line
They might have some cool art or seem like a fun card, but if you cant properly use it then its a waste of your wildcard
Five-mana enchantments are usually bad in 1v1 games, but its much more trivial to win via Revel in Riches in EDH
1 Mana Drain - Textured Foil Breaking News - $241.11 Countering a spell always feels good in a Magic game, but countering one and then getting refunded a bunch of mana on your next turn feels even better
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