while Bristly Bill is very good, you have a lot of ways to search for it and no way to search for these, and I think the added redundancy is less valuable than the space for other things, especially interaction given that I think the deck is a little slow in a way that requires it to be able to interact with faster opponents
"This time around, I drew Sephiroth on both the front and back sides of the card
On top of that, you also have access to plenty of card draw effects should you need to trigger Sphinxs Tutelage again
Im inclined to think that the grindier decks are more likely to do better in the long run, though, since the faster decks seem likely to get brickwalled by cards like Penumbra Spidera theme that well see come up again
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