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Extra Surveillance If our goal is to make the most out of cards with Surveil, we are going to want to run some ways to get additional enter-the-battlefield Surveil triggers

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature

These can be simple placeholders like Changeling Outcast or value plays like Realmwalker or honorary changeling Roaming Throne

Consider the way Iname, Death Aspect stocks your graveyard with Spirits to recur, to give you fuel for the Spiritcraft fire, while Iname, Life Aspect Regrowths them all to your hand, with its ueber-Spiritcraft ability

Drawing two cards for two mana is no joke, especially if the cost is pitching a land we dont need, a spell we cant cast, or a creature we may want to reanimate later