Renegade Tactics shuts down the opponent's strongest blocker and cantrip, and Fiery Cannonade is a modest one-sided sweeper that deals two damage to all non-Pirate creatures
You cast Azorius Herald, which has "When this creature enters, you gain 4 life." You'll gain 2 life, putting your life total back up to its maximum of 10
I wanted the second mini block, Shadowmoor , to have its own theme that cared about something that would exist in Lorwyn , much as how Shadowmoor could have creatures of the proper creature types
Card advantage is a strategic concept (rather than a specific game term) and a lot broader, and basically means having more cardboard than my opponents. For starters, any card that puts more cards in your hand is card advantage, even if it doesn't say draw. But card advantage also looks at what happens in other zones
Hope Estheim Hope Estheim gets docked slightly for not including black