The partner pair is Cazur, Ruthless Stalker and Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
You need to calculate DON curves and understand why ramping on turn 1 is better than hitting early
Exiling 13 cards off the top of your library represents a rough 1 in 6 chance that youll lose access to the card you need, with the odds improving to around 1 in 7 in the early game, and dropping as low as 1 in 5 if the game drags on for a while
Even if you have no other counters in play when you bring out your Contagion Engine, it provides a large amount of -1/-1 counters which you can then multiply using its proliferate effect
Last but not least, Ive grown to like Grand Abolisher quite a bit as a way to prevent your opponents from interacting with you the turn you want to assemble Voltron to win games
Midrange and control players everywhere have nightmares of Stinkweed Imp showing up with all of its removal-resistant friends