liege cards mtg Magic The Gathering - Creakwood (191/249) Balefire Liege deals 3 damage to target player Thistledown Liege - Foil Etched

The effects are chosen to synergize with one another and allow for some big moments

This helps you plan your future turns and play around their strategy and alter yours so you don't play into certain spells

Any one who keeps a keen eye on my cube tutor list will have noticed a lot of things like Oust, Disfigure and Sunlance (re)entering my cube recently

It gets your opponents to forward your plan of burning them to the ground and by making your spells uncounterable helps you disregard some of those untapped sources

More casual decks can happily run the ones that come into play tapped, with more competitive decks are only really interested in the mythic cycle that come into play untapped for three life