Seven mana Raven's Crime is pretty much the nut low for discard, even if it is exile and even if you can do it every turn
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Protecting your combo from countermagic while recurring cards like Frantic Search and Snap sounds promising
I dont really like the gamble here though, as it reminds me of Clinquant Skymage (which was generally mediocre)
Plus, as I mentioned, many of the top decks in Standard are skimping on removal, and when Emeria Shepherd sits on the battlefield for a few turns, the amount of value it generates is almost always game winning
Creatures (22) 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Lovestruck Beast 4 Giant Killer 4 Edgewall Innkeeper 4 Skyclave Apparition 4 Kazandu Mammoth Planeswalkers (1) Lands (19) Spells (18) Ross paired Battle with Starnheim Unleashed last week and I expect Battle to overperform in this deck