Moving on, we have one of the best Swords which I ranked recently
In Standard, you wont have as many Gates to work with as elsewhere, making Maze decks a harder thing to bring together
If you're running red and want to draw some cards, you have options like Faithless Looting, Tormenting Voice, and Cathartic Reunion
My thought was because the two Dragon lands, Haven of the Spirit Dragon and Crucible of the Spirit Dragon, took these nonbasic land slots
Lets dive into the mechanics of the set first
In order to showcase that, I used the two wildcard slots for extra black cards, breaking my even-color-distribution rule: Alara had a shard theme, so instead of splitting my picks in to the five colors, I split them across the five shards breaking the three-cards-of-each-main-color rule: Mirrodin Besieged was all about the MirranPhyrexian war