You dont choose targets for which creatures to steal until youve tapped your own creatures, so if the bearer of the sword is tapped, then your newly tapped creatures will be getting +2/+0 when youre choosing creatures of lesser power
Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face
As my collection grows bigger and bigger, I more often find myself building my decks with Gatherer or MagicCards.info databases, then searching to see if I have the cards or a card that does something similar to the cards Ive found
With less than 100 Mercenaries in the game, those that do exist are split between sets from the late 1990's and early 2000's, and those that have seen a resurgence in sets like Fallout and Outlaws of Thunder Junction
My favorite decks involve multiplication: multiplying damage, mana, cards drawnany way to create explosive and memorable turns