An excellent time to strike is if your opponent has just searched for a card , such as with Enlightened Tutor , or they already have seven or more cards in hand
You can also supplement his vitality with Narsil, Blade of the Faithful (9R+34) or The Saga of Elendil (1R114) , although this can be risky: if one of these cards is removed when he has only one wound left, he'll die and you'll lose the game
This strong emotional reaction makes sensewere looking at the cards cost-to-stars ratio and the bulk of the (non-reminder) text on the card
Dark Impostor [Vampire]: Not that good when it was in standard
Sacrifice has its purposes but can also be easily navigated around by your opponent with tokens and cheap creatures
And just for the curious, heres what happened when we let Ivankov decide what we looked like and heres what happened when we let Luffy decide what we look like