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Most control decks on the other hand are either going more the direction of the agro decks and getting card advantage alongside their other effects from cards like Consecrated Sphinx or planeswalkers or they are running a card advantage engine such as Life from the Loam

This separation really helped me make quicker decisions through all of my games, especially those where I was repeatedly casting Life from the Loam and pulling out three lands from an otherwise messy graveyard

Llanowar by Kev Walker Llanowar | Illustration by Kev Walker This is from a Planechase card, but I had to include it nonetheless

While most precons come with the necessary Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, plus a handful of slower mana rocks, they wont hold their own against any deck running Ancient Tomb, Grim Monolith, and many more of the game changers that infrequently come from precons