Reptiles and cold temperatures go together about as well as chocolate and Brussels sprouts, so it's interesting to see a fantastical breed of serpent that can not only survive in the cold, but fully embrace its chilly influence
It is very easy to cut a card like that and very hard to get excited about it
But both of those cards ended up being among the best Commons in the set
While, in our ideal world, we'll grow it a bit before it dies so we can reanimate something bigger, this isn't always possible, and getting no reanimation value from its death is brutal
Unlike activated abilities that have a cost and a colon, alliance looks for creatures entering the battlefield which could happen in a number of ways, but is not an activated ability
Altar is a multipurpose card in this deck, since it also allows us to mill ourselves and put more copies of Bridge from Below into our graveyard