Malignus So, this little beauty is approaching his 10 year anniversary and is still only about 5 bucks
However, because Regal Stance ends your turn, you may often find yourself unable to make timely use of any cards you draw from its effect and will likely be better served by alternative drawing options, like Kricketune Vs Exciting Stage
It sits in an unfortunate middle ground
This affords a +1 tempo boost in and of itself
One of the Pod versions I did of this deck had a fairly deep creature chain from two up to seven and was really invested in getting value from the Pod however this really weakened the deck and made it more like a combo deck with no way of finding your combo card
With them, you can copy the sphinx when it enters the battlefield and exploit the legend rule to sacrifice it and return it again and again to generate infinite death triggers and ETB effects with Blood Artist, for example