but it has suffered from IMA and A25s failures, Standards hiccups, and having to increasingly compete with massive retailers like Wal-Mart, Amazon, and eBay sellers who make profits via volume rather than selling above wholesale prices
That's good for land decks that use sacrifice abilities like fetchlands
Altar of Shadows Another stretch
On the other hand, the best version of Persist combo likely isn't mono-black but two colors, just because Mono-Black doesn't have a way to deal with artifact-based graveyard hate
Urza's Saga has definitely settled into the Golos decks well as a powerful card, especially when combined with Crucible of Worlds

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