(Opened May 4, 2015)
Way, waaaaaay back during the Onslaught block, a gaming magazine wrote about a nifty 2-turn kill using an innocuous little card named Tireless Tribe combined with power/toughness swappers. I'm not really sure if Magic players ever took that combination seriously since there aren't a lot of cards like Tireless Tribe to make the give the combo enough redundancy to make it go off consistently, but it was a cute thought exercise for people like me who are tickled with the idea of a victory practically happening out of nowhere.
A lot of players have heralded Assault Formation as the second coming of Doran, the Siege Tower, and have immediately started slotting this little beauty in Tiny Leader decks without much afterthought. I'm not sure if Tiny Leaders will still be alive by the time anyone reads this (since there are a lot of rumors flying around that the format is already "solved") but I hope someone would at least experience the same "A-ha!" moment that I had with this card and Tireless Tribe before Tiny Leaders dies out.
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Pack #3: Dragons of Tarkir, featuring Impact Tremors
(Opened May 1, 2015)
Ah, poor man's Purphoros.
There are probably a hundred of different Shrieking Drake + Faerie Conclave + Intruder Alarm combinations out there that can easily abuse a card like this, but I once dreamed of a Tiny Leaders deck that would profit from this sort of thing using just one color. The idea is to use creatures with dash, of course, and to take it to the next level using the tiniest red legendary creature in all of Magic.
Alas, that dream was not meant to be, no thanks to commander tax and its resistance against alternate casting costs. It seems that baby Zurgo's redemption is still far from sight, after all.