sauron card mtg Sauron, the Dark Lord (#675) (silver foil) (showcase) variation to centering MTG Sauron, the Dark Lord

For example, I see a lot of Five Color Commander decks that run a lot of sweeping removal and indestructible dorks for defense and survival that dont run this

It's an odd compromise that represents how the shows earthbenders weaponize the very ground beneath them, even if they don't actually do so by making independent creatures out of dirt or stone

If you want the short version: the London mulligan homogenizes game play, promotes mulligans in ways that further push this, and trades "non-games" where someone doesn't take actions with "one note games" where someone takes exactly two or three actions and the other person either answers them and instantly wins or misses and instantly loses

it works with the first level's exile ability but also effects like flashback and unearth