(A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Legendary Land Land (CTRL to add secondary) ramp ramp (CTRL to add secondary) recursion Auntie's Snitch This creature can't block
Against Dredge, Deputy will frequently exile three or four creatures at once, and its the best of all reasonable three-drops in the mirror and against Ensnaring Bridge decks
Finish off your opponents by swinging in with a fully buffed vampiric horde
A few off-shoot archetypes for Abzan include lifegain (Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant), poison (Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa and Vishgraz, the Doomhive), and enchantress (Anikthea, Hand of Erebos and Narci, Fable Singer), but none of these are super heavily supported by the 3-color Abzan cards
If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost." Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library
Creature Artifact - Pirate Dr
