Selesnya counters has plenty of options already, but somehow Wizards have managed to design something fresh
Upgrade Goals The stock list is already quite good, so we're just going to focus on improving what's already here with minor tweaks: Enhance our main Food theme Add one or two extra spot removal LOTR-Only Upgrade If you want to upgrade the deck using only cards from the LOTR set then you're in luck since there's some awesome upgrades available: I love Samwise Gamgee as a food producer and payoff and we have another amazing wipe with The Battle of Bywater
It represents a tactical shift in how these two massive franchises engage their overlapping fanbases while signaling what we can expect from the majority-licensed future of Magic
If you swap Sephiroth for Mayhem Devil, you get a similar effect by dealing infinite damagethough this version is limited by your life total, since Soultrader costs 1 life each time
For the purposes of clarity, something has to change, otherwise that elegant simplicity of Scavenge would go to waste
What makes this more exciting than, say, Desertion, is that you arent limited to the type of spell you counter