Kicker Instead Murder This card isn't particularly interesting since the kicked version is something we'd already play, so this feels less like kicker and more like evoke: the spell feels more like the full price version and you occasionally get a discount
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get this list into a game, so I can't report back on how my tablemates reacted to playing against a Kithkin Kindred deck led by one of the more notorious old stax commanders
In a nutshell, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam severely underestimated the popularity of this limited edition card and chaos ensued, resulting in near-riots as fans turned up en masse to score a card
Having achieved this, Zeff's second effect (which is similar to ST12-010-emporioivankov's) allows us to play that 2-cost card that is at the top
Creatures (25) 4 Bonecrusher Giant 2 Woe Strider 1 Ox of Agonas 4 Mire Triton 3 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger 2 Skyclave Shade 2 Valki, God of Lies 3 Egon, God of Death 4 Immersturm Predator Lands (23) Spells (12) Okay, admittedly, this might not be an Embercleave deck, but Im kind of just a little kid
Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.) If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard