Whether youre a filthy casual, a competitive cEDH player, or somewhere in between these two stereotypes like me, efficiency is always a part of the conversation surrounding deck construction or deciding which preconstructed deck to buy
This format has been in a bit of a sorry state for a while, and this solution certainly isnt perfect
8 Gideon, The Oathsworn The weakest Gideon card to see print, Gideon, the Oathsworn was printed as part of a Planeswalker deck and suffers from the same drawback as nearly every Planeswalker deck Planeswalker: a high mana cost
On the card Stone-Cold Basilisk (a play on Odyssey 's Stone-Tongue Basilisk and professional wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin), we see a player who is slowly figuring out that there might be a basilisk behind him because everyone else in the tournament has been turned to stone
That also makes it perfect in self-mill decks like Teval, the Balanced Scale
Its a three-mana 2/2 Vampire, which can make it good in any deck with Vampires at all, but its also one with built-in card removal