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Accord seems good in a control deck if there's incidental life gain on a lot of cards that deck wants.

The Izzet-island certainly looks like a good contender for a Steam Vents!

Against most flying tokens yeah and also I like the aesthetics of the same p/t! One toughness really sucks against like, lingering souls, and two toughness becomes 3 toughness after one instant/sorcery which lets it survive a lot more than the 2 toughness wondscout gets after its trigger.

Wind mage! If only because it's a wind drake.

Valkyrie has real sweet art to boot

I agree! I honestly don't have a clue what "CBS" is supposed to be. "Cube Bull Shit"?

The 3 toughness might be what makes it bearable

Liliana's Reaver Maybe on the more obnoxious end?

They also pair well with red discard effects such as faithless looting and devastating dreams for the RG control decks.

There's also a good chance you can just run both the wurm and the hydra!

That's fine! I just have found myself to be a bit hand-wavey, so that's why I mentioned it. These days I even like to go as far as try to write up what an actual 40-card deck with a theme would look like. It's much harder to argue against something very concrete.

Do you really need to play aristocrats specifically to want a 5/5 hasty dragon???

It's very easy to just wave a hand without listing the actual cards necessary to get the critical mass for a theme to be viable.

I think a life-pay theme sprinkled with just a few good lifegain-matters cards is a good way to go both supporting it organically (lifepay for powerful effects that wants lifegain) and some signalling elements to get the idea implanted in a drafters mind (the lifegain-matters card). Giving two...

Can you give some examples of these critters?

I do run a pox archetype to a degree.. so maybe it isn't that unrealistic to be low on cards in hand in black :) Might just try it.

dread wanderer Another one. How hard is it to actually get down to 1 card in a regular deck? Do you need to actively discard cards to get to use him?

I'm already trying to support death cloud and braids and smokestack, so I think a card like call to the grave fits that theme pretty well. Incidentally, I'm running Reassembling skeleton to get a lock with those cards already so call might just make it in :)

That's a good argument :) The lock only works with a zombie deck so maybe it isn't that oppressive. Worth a try at least

call to the grave Is this a fair card in a zombie dense deck or miserable? I can see it ending up as a repetitive board state with no interaction. It does really insentivise playing zombies though.