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The rest of the deck is rounded out with amazing recursion options like Glissa, the Traitor, great board protection with Inspiring Call, and two one-sided board wipes with Phyrexian Scriptures and Their Name Is Death since nearly all our creatures are artifacts

As well as some mechanical foundations, Riftbound has also taken lessons from how popular the multiplayer MTG Commander format has been, the player-made four-player game mode that has come to dominate many an LGS over the last decade

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