The Return to Ravnica block repeated hybrid's use from the original Ravnica block, a vertical cycle (common, uncommon, and rare) for each of the two-color pairs, five in Return to Ravnica and five in Gatecrash
You need some recursive dorks to empower sacrifice mechanics but they are very rarely game winning by themselves
In other words, there's little room for creative and different strategies, despite the Standard format now including a pretty large number of sets
Veil is still more flexible than many of its forebears: it hits blue and black spells, tagging permission, removal, and targeting effects like those of Thoughtseize and Surgical Extraction
I didnt want to vote for him this year for two reasons: 1) he hasnt yet demonstrated that he will commit himself to playing at a high level with renewed integrity and 2) not enough people were going to vote for him
Bring out Rograkh to the sacrificial altar