As a result, if the control-changing effect does not give the creature haste, we will deal with a restriction on activating abilities and attacking: The Newly-borrowed through Lay Claim, and immediately animated Mutavault cannot give mana
Theres a ton of self-mill, rummaging, and recursion in this deck, with a few grave-break payoffs that reward you for removing or casting cards from your graveyard
This is largely due to the many printing variants that need to get designed
It would be safe to say I never saw the average optimized list in action
It's got an on curve 5/4 size and no one can gain life while it's out, not you or they
Whats cool is that even though youre not typically going to play Ashcloud Phoenix as a morph, it still plays nicely with Trail of Mystery when it dies, since Trail of Mystery very conveniently triggers whenever a face-down creature enters the battlefield under your control rather than whenever you play a face-down creature