Liliana will be a solid grab when she bottoms out
Gallery and List of Backup Cards Archpriest of Shadows Bola Slinger Boon-Bringer Valkyrie Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener Chomping Kavu Conclave Sledge-Captain Consuming Aetherborn Cragsmasher Yeti Death-Greeter's Champion Doomskar Warrior Emergent Woodwurm Enduring Bondwarden Fearless Skald Gloomfang Mauler Golden-Scale Aeronaut Guardian Scalelord Hangar Scrounger Mirror-Style Master Redcap Heelslasher Saiba Cryptomancer Scorn-Blade Berserker Serpent-Blade Assailant Sigiled Sentinel Streetwise Negotiator Voldaren Thrillseeker Best Backup Cards There arent too many slam-dunk staple backup cards, but there are a few that justify their inclusion in a deck
Normally in Magic , we're trained to wait and use our instant-speed removal spells at the last possible moment to gain more information, but this strategy often leads to disaster against Infect, since they have a bunch of cheap spells that can fizzle targeted removal (Blossoming Defense, Vines of Vastwood, Apostle's Blessing)
Wait for your opponent to shuffle your deck, then use Professor's Research to potentially regain your lost cards
That means that I've surely missed some fantastic pairings, but I still think this "mix of old and new" approach was worth doing
Similarly to Panharmonicon (another do-nothing artifact that forces you to take off your fourth turn), to make Thran Temporal Gateway work, it has to be so powerful that it catches you back up after putting you behind