I also felt the deck always had game against every strategy we played against on stream
For everything this spell does, and the fact youre probably getting a one mana discount from your various support pieces, its a home run design
Shock Rarity: Common TYPE: Instant SUBTYPE: - CMC: 1 Mana cost: USD: $0.20 EUR: 0.17 TIX: 0.04 EDHREC RANK: 2229 Shock deals 2 damage to any target
That ability lets you pick once from four different effects: tapping or untapping a permanent, dealing 3 damage to each opponent, copying an instant or sorcery, or (presumably your last choice) putting Gandalf back on top of your deck
You can use it to maximize value by pointing it at a player that owes you a favor, or you can give another player an opportunity to do something for you
Against control, we can steal wins with aggressive starts, although if we are lacking Time of Heroes, we're often slow enough that a wrath will run our plans