Instant Color tag templates(None) Costly Plunder As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature
For example, there are cards that, despite being heavily skewed toward defensive use, contribute significantly to win rates due to their high power level, making them well worth including even in aggressive decks (a prime example being Force of Negation, a counterspell that is difficult to use aggressively)
(For example, we still don't have Fifth Dawn cards here yet, and must still play with proxies of them.) Substantial Substitutes The best kind of proxy card, and the one you're most familiar with if you read the site enough, are the playtest stickers. Here is a playtest sticker of Quicksilver Behemoth used during Darksteel development: These stickers are printed directly from our card database in large numbers, and then we all sit around and stick them on the appropriately-colored leftover cards from older sets
I try to avoid those in my EDH decklists, as theyre expensive and if you already own them you dont need my advice to include them
This one didnt come easy, and its price tag shows it
According to Gavin Verhey , the reason, he believes, that there are four tokens generated by this card is because there were four members of the Strike Team at the time
