But even if one didn't swap those two, much like an unmodified Elven Empire deck, Szarek can still hold his own in a pod with its designated precon
Matoya, Archon Elder Turning your draw smoothing into card drawing too, Matoya is pretty neat that way and fits in a number of casual and Commander decks, but dont expect to see this old lady haunting any other tables
As I see it you play your Emrakul and take their turn, a lot of the time this is good games, you empty their hand, kill loads of their stuff, run in awful attacks and waste as much of their stuff as you can in inefficient ways
That makes it far less costly to throw some challenges at your opponent to slow them down
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