Step 5: Play 10-15 games before changing anything
Black does get First Strike and used to get Protection, but they werent as common as in white, for which First Strike is primary and Protection used to be
Torment , where Cabal Ritual originally appeared, was heavily weighted toward black and contained a lot of graveyard-related abilities, making the card a perfect intersection of story and gameplay
It's not a huge amount of value, but when you consider the fact that you have three opponents, plus anything you do, you can draw upwards of four cards and make four tokens by the time your turn comes back around
If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal), that card wont be exiled and the spells controller wont be able to cast it as a permanent later
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