Moving on to more standout works of the year, we head to
He can also reliably pitch your hand into your graveyard, which can make a good setup for graveyard strategies - whether you're trying to get an Underworld Breach / Lion's Eye Diamond loop going for a combo, or just want to reanimate something huge
Tidus often isn't essential for the deck to work, but the warrior commander certainly helps the card draw and proliferate engine work smoothly
It is often well out of reach of being hard cast even in green ramp decks
The original Theros set was my second time back to Magic after a pause, and the dual pull of two parts of my elder childhood together was too hard to resist
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