Melvin: I prefer my alerts to be red or at least yellow before I start caring
Spell Pierce is not ideal in the format due to how many ramp spells there are to help opponents get around its tax, but I want some one-mana interaction in my maindeck to be paired alongside that Turn 2 Curious Obsession and its hard to justify maindecking Dive Down in a format where people are so disinterested in killing each others threats in Game 1
Charizard is supposedly worth, its simply because card values are hard to predict
If anything, this card affords us a backup win condition if we cant find Feast of Sanity or the aforementioned Manticore
As a 5/5 with flying and first strike (for only five mana, no less), this creature is able to kill Sheoldred, the Apocalypse as a blocker in one-on-one combat, which is already a positive trade-off for this creature as a blocker
(It turns out I've made quite a number of cards that can kick my, um, donkey.) Luckily for me, Aaron Forsythe, Erik Lauer, and Ken Nagle had built a stable of Standard gunslinging decks that allowed me to keep changing what I was playing
