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In other words, this Lesson has been seeing play because of several different kinds of decks, whether that be life gain, Aristocrats, or Token Storm

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The main goal of the deck is to form the Mechtitan: a powerful Construct, and the most literal form of Voltron in all of Magic

I was really torn between which of the top two cycles should be #1 or #2

That sort of card advantage + aggro potential is exactly what fast decks are looking for in a 4-drop