Thats especially true of Meticulous Excavation, a card that allows you to pay three mana to put a permanent you control back in its owners hand
After all, where else are you going to get Energy from
Skip to main content SIGN IN Duskmourn: House of Horror Foil: Veteran Survivor Edition: Duskmourn: House of Horror Type: Creature - Human Survivor Cast: Rarity: U Collector #: 0040 Pow/Tuf: 2/1 Survival - At the beginning of your second main phase, if Veteran Survivor is tapped, exile up to one target card from a graveyard
Once Ich-Tekik is in play we can feel free to sacrifice all of those extra artifacts to draw cards, put counters on our golems, and generally grind out as much value as possible
This keeps me from running into as many dead draws over the course of the game
Wizards of the Coast did try to compensate for this by increasing the Mana tax as you increase Esper Sentinels power, but any Auras or buff spells after often reserved for the Commander in Voltron style decks