mox cards mtg Lotus - what sounds like an average Vintage first turn is actually a card. Well to be fair, the average Vintage turn would be Mox, Mox, Lotus, Workshop, Smokestack Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control Mox Diamond - Custom Magic:

They get uncastable giant creatures out of our hand and into the graveyard, they refill our hand with fresh gas to play, and of course, they trigger Sefris (so long as we discard at least one creature)

(Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and " : Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.) Creature - Phyrexian Shark Color tag templates(None) Company Commander Command Section When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have

Even if you advance to a board position where you no longer need Pithing Needle for the original threat you boarded it in for, it can still be useful

The black spell can force you to sacrifice your creature with the highest mana value, which is often either going to be your commander or game-winning piece