Speaking of which, you will probably want to play with Fellwar Stone, Exotic Orchard, and five-color mana rocks like Darksteel Ingot so you can create colored mana for stolen activated abilities that require mana outside of blue or black
Tato Farmer
Draining creatures Normally, black destruction doesn't use damage, as that's red's thing, but black does make one exception (okay twothe other one's coming): what players refer to as "draining." These spells deal damage to a creature and then gain you, the caster, an equal amount of life
Finally, while it hurts to say, Three Steps Ahead will be another big loss for the format
This is really efficient for what it is, and while it'll be hard to get in with your Hero token, this is really cheap to move around, so you're going to find a creature who can benefit from it
Pauper folks know this treefolk well