You wont be disappointed to open one in your pack, but its not the big hits youre really hoping for
And your creatures still have their abilities, so you can exile Akroma and get a 4/4 flying, haste, vigilance, pro-Red, pro-Black, trample Angel Zombie and swing, or that annoying indestructible creature you just countered, well, get a 4/4 indestructible Zombie
What are we willing to take early
With cards like Kruphix, God of HorizonsKruphix, God of Horizons, Inga and EsikaInga and Esika, Xolatoyac, the Smiling FloodXolatoyac, the Smiling Flood, and others, you can spend a lot of mana on other players' end steps to ensure they don't have as many opportunities to disrupt your game plan and to allow you to keep your own disruption spells castable at a moment's notice
Your opponents won't even know they're dry-erase until you casually wipe one clean and redraw it mid-game like some kind of token wizard
8 War Room Price $2.85 In colorless decks, War Room essentially reads "pay three generic mana, tap, draw a card." That's good--very good