The biggest problem with all starter decks is that you only get one copy of the key cards
By the second turn, we had one creature on the battlefield, but even then, we were facing down an already-expanding army, buoyed by lucky scheme card draws and clever plays from our Archenemy
It even taps down a creature if you need to buy time or are racing your opponent
In the example above, the diamond design on the Crobat card represents the Shining Fates expansion
Even with only four creatures in the graveyard, its still a 10/10 Hill Giant to go with our 4/4 Grizzly Bears. A basic U/G/b shell for Block Constructed easily could adapt Ghoultree along with the new blue instant Thought Scour and a misers Wild Hunger to compensate for the lack of trample: Creatures (23) 3 Boneyard Wurm 4 Avacyn's Pilgrim 3 Deranged Assistant 2 Kessig Cagebreakers 3 Splinterfright 4 Armored Skaab 4 Ghoultree Lands (21) Spells (16) 3 Mulch 1 Spider Spawning 2 Sever the Bloodline 4 Dream Twist 2 Gnaw to the Bone 3 Thought Scour 1 Wild Hunger Sideboard 9) Lingering Souls This card would be much higher on the list if it had a flashback cost with either blue, green, or white mana rather than black
The franchise has its roots in a gaming magazine in the early 1980s in JapanGame Freak, started by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori
