Note that a Standard ban announcement doesnt necessarily ban a card, but they can make an official statement about the health of the format, and which decks and cards are more likely to get the axe in the future
At all times, you need to keep track of important cards that you want and make use of abilities and instants to bring them back from or put them in the graveyard
Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga's controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered
This is a double-edged sword: it prevents Adamantoise from being a repeatable reanimation target, but it also likely gives you enough mana to win the game on the spot regardless
Since they dont use a colored mana symbol, they can go into any Commander deck to provide an off-color basic land type, which could be interesting for domain or converge strategies outside 5-color shells
This eight-mana sorcery allows you to choose a creature type and return every card of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield