If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.) Legendary Creature - Pirate Monkey Sardian Avenger First strike, trample Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts your opponents control
Further Upgrades The first cards I'd pick up to further juice up the deck would be untapped mana-fixing lands: Watery Grave, Shipwreck Marsh, Underground River, Morphic Pool, Darkslick Shores, Polluted Delta, Sunken Ruins, Undercity Sewers, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and then maybe a couple more Island / Swamp fetches
If you dont increase your 4-mana cost curve too much they can be added to your deck
In the end, Gyrus feels like another Tawnos: had they been printed at a different time, they could have garnered more praise
At the time, R&D and Creative lacked good communication due to my then strained relationship with the latter
The curve is low, ensuring that you will either establish a strong battlefield or interact profitably with your opponent on the first three turns of the game
