The shock and check lands like Watery Grave and Drowned Catacomb are good and efficient at what they do, and you can play mana rocks like the Signets to ramp and fix your mana
You gain 1 life for each spent to cast this spell
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you target a Villain you control, usually Doom himself, and it gains menace and connives, meaning you draw a card and discard one
A 720-card cube can support two eight-player drafts
Pyre of Heroes Pyre of Heroes is the typal Birthing Pod, and in the right deck, you can have all sorts of combos and sequences
In fact, players should inform other players that its a proxy when its not obvious at first glance