As a thesis for the deck, I am looking to obviously include Samurai, but the inherent conceit is that the deck will not function optimally compared to other tribal decks

Three-Color Gold We hit the Shards of Alara three-color gold theme, no strings, with an uncommon cycle ( We also explored "colored permanents matter." We did this mechanic as recently as Shadowmoor and Eventide: Where Shadowmoor and Eventide made blue cards that like blue things, Conflux put the color-matters effect on its ally color card to lean heavier on "gold-matters" than "hybrid-matters." These are sprinkled throughout the set on creatures and instants such as This mechanic, incidentally, allows us to create "one-drop gold creatures" like We consider it bonus inter-block synergy, that, for example, We also did a few off-color activations at common, on cards such as Finally, there was a full-blown uncommon cycle of "CE" activations for better upside: Guess the Conflux Card from its Art Comments Minigame [Doug Beyer] 6/13/08: The "puppet" still needs to look organic enough to pass as a living human

Update: This story has been updated to add several known cards in the expansion, and to include details about Pokmon Tool cards.
Ugins Nexus If your deck cares about sacrificing artifacts, Ugin's Nexus gives you all the turns you could desire while keeping your opponents relatively honest
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