mtg piracy card (Card) Spend this mana only to cast spells. MTGNexus - Coastal Piracy

As such, you really dont enjoy going first in a pod when youre playing cards like Land Tax, as they will struggle to fire unless a green player ahead of you not only ramps, but hits all of their land drops

Casting this on Eject gives you multiple big spell triggers, and if you can get to eight mana, it goes pretty hard

Is Deathtouch an Ability

Interestingly, as a fun little tech, you can use Permission Denied to counter your own noncreature spells to ensure your opponents wont be able to counter your next play.

Do you like the Crystals

I'm going to chock this up to simply that both cards are two of the oldest cards in the entire game and the card designers were still trying to figure out exactly what they wanted to do with the game