Friends on the Other Side If you and your buddies are picking starter decks to play against each other, the Amber and Amethyst deck is likely to win you plenty of games
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed If you want to play a deck like Nikya of the Old Ways that either discourages or prevents you from playing noncreature spells, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed is going to pack a wallop, especially if you protect it
Its difficult to succinctly describe Group Slug's approach to Magic and so I will rely on a picture in lieu of a thousand words: While Manabarbs as a card is a great way of illustrating the principles of Group Slug, I really wanna focus on that flavour text: "I don't know why people say a double-edged sword is bad
Mayhem B (You may cast this card from your graveyard for B if you discarded it this turn
With this you don't have to, it is not at all dead in the matchups where you don't care about life and it is typically your best card in the ones you do
If you were to lose due to poison counters, you would immediately lose as soon as the ability resolves as you still have 10 poison counters