2 Pick your win condition Decide how you actually win: combat damage, a combo loop, a value engine that snowballs into a win, or an alternate win condition
The Izzet deck is far less about redundancy
G2 I lead off with a Cabal Therapy naming Counterspell and miss, but I see three Islands, Force Spike, Standstill, Phyrexian Dreadnought (!), and Vision Charm
For example, Series 1 sheet 12 will always have Chansey, Nidoran, and Nidoran
Since then, the Pokmon TCG 's Professor's Research cards have become a staple of the series
Of course, that gets stupid with cards like Necropotence or Griselbrand which allow for big life payments, and coupled with a card like Exsanguinate, you can recoup your life loss or even outright win