command cards mtg Ray of [Ice Age] or search your library for a creature card Magic the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed

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If you look at our level-up creatures, you'll see that almost all of them start off underpowered based on their cost, before eventually becoming good or even great, assuming we can dump a bunch of mana into leveling them up (without our opponent killing them in response)

Life turned out to be quite efficient

Any time Gandalfs controller casts an instant or sorcery, they may choose from among four options: tap or untap a one permanent, deal three damage to each opponent, copy a spell they control or put Gandalf on top of its owners library

It's a cheap creature that sits on the board growing slowly larger, and thanks to all our high mana cost spells, it can spit out an absolute ton of mana over the course of a game