Cards like Crackle with Power or Dragonspark Reactor could greatly benefit from creating a massive amount of treasure tokens
Auriok Champion) or have a bunch of creatures in your hand that youll play immediately afterwards
The way they grayscaled the cards didn't help either, looking dark and murky, especially when compared to mockups made by others, like this one a friend of mine shared on Twitter: Someone in my server took the 20 seconds to up the brightness just a bit and look at the difference it made

Patrick's brilliant deck, Next Level Blue, not only catapulted the phrase "next level" into the Title: Tom LaPille's Next Level Blue Format: Extended 4 Counterspell 1 Academy Ruins 1 Breeding Pool 4 Flooded Strand 1 Hallowed Fountain 8 Island 4 Polluted Delta 1 Steam Vents 1 Tree of Tales 4 Tarmogoyf 3 Trinket Mage 3 Spell Snare 4 Thirst for Knowledge 4 Chrome Mox 4 Counterbalance 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Pithing Needle 4 Sensei's Divining Top 3 Threads of Disloyalty 1 Tormod's Crypt 3 Vedalken Shackles *3 Ancient Grudge *1 Engineered Explosives *2 Global Ruin *2 Krosan Grip *3 Sower of Temptation *1 Threads of Disloyalty *3 Tormod's Crypt This is a blue control deck through and through, playing Counterspell and Spell Snare for early countermagic, the eternally potent Counterbalance and Sensei's Divining Top to lock your opponent out of the game, and Vedalken Shackles

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