mtg forgotten realms dungeon cards Magic: The Gathering Adventures in The Bundle Illustrated by Erol Otus. Top Ten Cards from Adventures

The two most played removal spells by a large margin were Lightning Bolt and Path to Exile the former of which could be played early but could only kill small creatures, while the latter could deal with any creature but was punishing to play in the early turns of the game

Crashing Drawbridge Crashing Drawbridge is not only handy for getting big Defenders attacking as early as possible, it can speed up cards with tap abilities like Ovegrown Battlement too

The obvious play is for Negan to blow up your best creature

Duress Duress doesnt let you target a creature card to discard, but its that much cheaper for it

Just watch out for certain Exile spells like Swords to Plowshares or Vraskas Contempt that would make recasting Optimus more expensive (the Commander tax applies to both sides), or other annoying blue cards like Capture Sphere that doesnt kill him but does prevent attacking and blocking