mtg cards search for Azcanta / Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin Mint / near mint condition trading card Spellseeker (Commander Masters)

Elite Spellbinder gets rid of threats out of your opponents hands, and while it doesnt completely remove the card from the game, it does make someones potential payoff visible to the rest of the table and this might cause the table to shift focus to that player instead

(Whenever a creature token you control attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on that token.) Blind Betrayal Sacrifice another creature: Elder Arthur Maxson gains indestructible until end of turn

Since then, fogs have evolved in numerous ways and taken plenty of different forms

But seriously, just putting a +1/+1 every turn on creatures you control is already a nice rate for a 2-drop

How much of Slicers success is due to the somewhat predictable cEDH metagame

It is much closer in value to a Rogue Refiner (assuming you have a good use for energy) and so that is a fantastic deal