Its enough fun, in fact, that Im dead set on playing the launch celebration event, where you can play with any card in standard, and have the chance to win one of every card as a hefty reward
In those decks, this is one of the first cards to be included simply because of how efficiently it turns life gain into cards
The nastiest way to play the card is with wheel effects that make all players discard and draw
Core synergy pieces Spell payoffs: Cost reducers: Copy effects: Commanders 42.3% (55) 21.5% (28) 20.8% (27) 15.4% (20) How to beat it Removing the payoff creature stalls the snowball, but tax effects (Eidolon of Rhetoric, Vryn Wingmare, Damping Sphere) and Rule of Law style lockouts hit spellslinger harder than counterspell trades, since one-for-one counter trades against cheap chain spells usually favor the spellslinger player
4 - Ozai, the Phoenix King (Borderless) - $55 Another printing of Ozai, this version has an inky-black background but performs the same as the other Borderless version on this list
Overrun and Finisher Spells An army of tiny 1/1s can look harmless until you cast something like Craterhoof Behemoth