Archon of Cruelty If you want to reanimate, Sneak Attack, and otherwise cheat a creature into play, Archon of Cruelty is often one of your best options due to the overwhelming advantage of eating your opponents board, providing immense card advantage, and pressuring life totals
It can straight up kill two things, either in combat resulting from the counter or because you randomly happen to have an enchantment like a Courser of Kruphix and you just die
For five mana, this 2/5 with double strike states that at the beginning of combat during your turn, you may choose one of three potential effects
Land Tax (T1, S) When people argue about the most powerful cards ever printed, they throw out names like Mind Twist, Tolarian Academy, Wheel of Fortune, and Ancestral Recall
As a vehicle, it can stay back while being less vulnerable to interaction, and you can crew it up and attack when you know youll get value out of it and it wont be destroyed
Lumbering Worldwagon might well replace Kodamas Reach/Cultivate in a lot of decks