Beside the fact that Vigor is a nice fat creature to have in general (protect your other creatures from burn-spells and make combats nearly impossible for your foes), it can get you an early win: If you attack with Animar while Vigor is chilling it's body-weight your enemy really has to think about what he wants to do: he can let Animar pass thought, but he can't do it too often, because Animar will grow strong and he only need's to deal 21 damage to your enemy to win the game OR he blocks and - in many cases - he gives your commander more +1/+1-counters, making summoning creatures and snowballing in the game even easier for you
Most of the time, you'll be trading from a binder full of the cards you're looking to swap
:) But its been fun to reconnect with everyone, as for me Magic: the Gathering has mostly been about the people, not the game
11 Thirst for Identity At a cost of three mana (two colorless and one blue), Thirst for Identity is a rather cheap instant that lets you draw three cards, but you have to discard two cards or a single creature card
The artwork on the card is fantastic and the 60 Congratulations! and GX attack of 1060 damage are nice touches to help commemorate his 60th birthday
Her ability is going to do some heavy lifting here
