mtg suspend cards Understanding in Magic: The Gathering Exile Suspended Sentence with three time counters on it Suspended Sentence

Youll learn that some players dont care about winning, they just want to play with their deck for as long as possible

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, draw a card

Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total

You can do something similar with Warp cards and a sacrifice outlet