As far as the drawback, winning with Nine Lives and Harmless Offering requires a third card (a way to kill Nine Lives after we give it to our opponent), turning a two-card combo into a three-card combo
Merely the sacrificing of another permanent.
NIM DEATHMANTLE Emerging from the high-powered Scars of Mirrodin block, Nim Deathmantle plays with one of the most underutilized kinds of reanimation: the defensive Reanimator card
For decades, many of us have been imagining different ways the legendary objects from the War of the Ring could be depicted
I tried a couple of different mana rocks, but they didnt add anything meaningful to the environment, and these living weapon Equipment are decent tools for token decks
(5/1/2012) If you exile a permanent card that you can't put onto the battlefield (such as an Aura with nothing legal to enchant) or one you don't want to put onto the battlefield, Primal Surge finishes resolving