For years, Lightning Bolt was so powerful that decks like Jund and Jeskai Control were essentially splashing red just for it, but now the cards in the format are so powerful that decks that play red and want that effect dont even necessarily want the full four-copies
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Provisions Merchant creates a food when it enter to kick it off, and it'll give everything +1+1 and trample if you want to sacrifice a food, and you can easily overwhelm them using tokens with cards like Experimental Confectioner
The 1:1 trade is fantastic for virtually every Black deck (especially if you side one into one of MTG s great Commander precons) but really shines when used with lots of weenies and tokens, as well as ways to sacrifice them to gain an advantage
The new keywords are Boast and Foretell
Sometimes, simplicity is best