( can be paid with either or 2 life.) ----- Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature transforms into Hideous Fleshwheeler, put target permanent card with mana value 2 or less from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control
You'll want to split your attention to multiple kinds of cards as you choose them: Threats, like powerful creatures or expensive spells that can upend the game
High Utility, Low Price Scavenging Ooze Forgotten Ancient Master Biomancer Juniper Order Ranger Reveillark Disdainful Stroke Inspiring Call Mortify Putrefy Ancient Excavation Sylvan Reclamation Merciless Eviction Treasure Cruise Fellwar Stone Golgari Signet Orzhov Signet Simic Signet Farewell is a messed up card, but Merciless Eviction still feels like it has a place in the format
Mana Drain is of the latter form of power
Ill start by looking at our mana curve: 73 total cards plus 39 lands equals twelve cards too many, so we need to make some cuts
It stops spells you play from being countered, it gives permanents you control Hexproof from both Blue and Black cards, and it lets you draw a card if an opponent has played a Blue or Black card