Swarm Surge Swarm Surge is a decent mass pump, especially for your colorless creatures
After tossing around ideas for a game called RoboRally with visiting mathematics professor Richard Garfield, it was decided that production costs would be too expensive and WotC asked Garfield if he had any other ideas up his sleeve
For example, if a 5/5 creature that's also a planeswalker with three loyalty counters on it is dealt 4 damage, it's been dealt 1 excess damage and Aegar's ability may trigger
While new blocks of sets ( ex series sets, Diamond & Pearl, etc.) normally avoid complexity at the start, I think there has been a specific moment in the game when the card creators shifted into crafting a game thats overall simpler than before
Outside of cast from exile theme decks in Commander, this just seems too inefficient to really bother with
But there are implications to trying to finish a deck without proxies