Also, when you deny someone one of their fun spells, you can always copy it later on using a nasty Flawless Forgery
(Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) There may be little honor in my tactics, but there is no honor in losing. Watermark: Mardu Illustrated by Ryan Alexander Lee Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
A lot of our job is bending the rules of Magic , or finding some tasty design space, and hoping that rules managers (who are incredibly awesome) deign it possible (thank you, Tabak and Jess!)
The activated ability is rather expensive though, so it plays best in decks that know they have to turn aside a single prominent threat
Mindwrack Demon has great stats for the matchup and can enable delirium for our Ishkanah, Grafwidows, but the risk of not having delirium and losing four life a turn is too great