MTG Salvation

I would play BOTH Witness the End AND Blightning, along Relic of Progenitus and some cheap processors such as Wasteland Strangler.

Yes, Xyx, but black creatures usually were the worst to "compensate" for being untouchable to a huge amount of removal, Black Knight was a bit stronger than White Knight because it could dodge BOTH Swords to Plowshares and the current "Terror" iteration running around.

As the removal eventually got universal and unconditional, the creatures had to be improved to avoid them becoming useless, because almost no creature was considered an investment unless it either costed one mana or was protected from StP.

I guess the flavor from Dark Banishing comes from the fact that you were "using evil energies" to destroy the creature, energies that were useless against ebul critters such as zombies and those.

Mmm, this one would do a fine job helping you find your basic lands to assemble your 5-color Domain, a deck that after having the five basic land types in play could have stuff like 5 damage for 1R (Tribal Flames), creature growth at +5/+5 for G (Gaea's Might and Alara's Might), draw 5 for 4U (Allied Strategies) and lots of fun, powerful finishers to choose from. Damn, I loved my Invasion Domain deck, it was one of the most fun decks I played.

There are some weird enchantments that launch you straight to full Domain that came out on more recent sets, such as Prismatic Omen (This one specifically could be used along Alara's Domain cards)

Lay of The Land helps you tutor the lands you need to complete your "Domain-Tron", as long as you have G on the borad, it's almost a land drop.

Heh, I combine everything that lets my opponent draw cards with Consecrated Sphinx, now they'll draw two cards, and I'll draw five xD, not bad for a humble 2-mana counterspell, heheh.

I remember playing Shriekmaw for its evoke cost, and then respond to the sacrifice trigger by slamming a Nova Chaser in the table with Incandescent Soulstoke, Nova Chaser would champion the Shriekmaw, exiling it before it died to evoke, then I swing with the Chaser, and then kill a second critter when the Shriekmaw returned to the game due to the Chaser biting the dust.