So did Black Vise, Copper Tablet, Time Bomb, and Armageddon Clock. It made things even more interesting that, on account of the Speed mechanic, the deck needed to dabble in targeted damagewhich opened the door to cards that have only rarely seen the light of day since their Standard seasons, like Blazing Torch, Ninjas Kunai, Aeolipile and TelimTor's Darts. In practice, the deck feels like a scrapyard come to life, like an archive of discarded Magic that is groaning and wailing and lumbering right towards you
Targeting the opponent can be upside in some spots, but a liability in others, and on the whole, Id call it a wash
Three Steps Ahead One of the best Cancel variants, Three Steps Ahead provides an instant-speed Clone that sometimes hits a spell and filters your hand, giving it graveyard synergies on top of the token stuff
This creates a neat dynamic where you have to be careful not to destroy Endrek Sahr as you create tokens
Attacking creatures do one extra direct damage to the player or planeswalker theyre attacking