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It will likely die after that

Building a deck with unfettered access to the entirety of Magic s card pool makes this hard to avoid

The strength of this version is that you dont falter in tough spots, making you better against aggressive strategies, even without the burst of lifegain from Hydroid Krasis

So that's a nice little bit of gravy on top

Lead MTG designer Mark Rosewater says in a 2023 blog post that Cascade is "easier to manipulate through deck-building, which is a downside from a play design sense, but an upside from a power level sense", compared to Discover

It can be a fun deck that you can power into infinite combo land with classics like Pili-Pala and Grand Architect to copy, Horseshoe Crab to start looping things, etc