Someone can easily stop you from casting spells for a bit if they can stop your method of sacrificing this reliably, so you really have to make sure you can always pitch this thing if you don't want to lose half of your starting life
Regardless, there is a lot to like about Lizard Blades
Elvish Piper is superior because you can cheat your creatures out at instant speed and not just during your attack phase, plus it doesn't become exerted, but at least the champ saves you the mana cost to activate
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Oversized Cards: A Very Brief History I've not written an entire article on oversized cards before, but I've touched on them a bit in the past
To be honest, youre going to be playing against the starter deck a LOT before dealing with the bigger stuff, so you dont even have to have a completed amazing tier 1 deck to start