mtg commander 2018 deck Exquisite Invention 1 Phyrexian Rebirth 2018 MTG Commander Deck: Exquisite

A 7/7 with Trample for seven mana already demands an answer, especially one that forces your opponents to exile cards from the top of their library until they hit a nonland card, and you get to cast any number of those spells for free

Lets take a look at two cards from CCCs past that have used simple templating to deliver powerful results

It has beautiful card art, makes excellent use of the Disney library, and offers simple and briskly paced gameplay

Another one of my favorite examples, that is probably underappreciated outside of the Alpha context because its power is more subtle, are the Psychic Venom decks

Kolaghan's Command doesn't return a creature directly to the battlefield, but when the creature coming back to your hand is a 10/10 that costs one black mana, it might as well be doing exactly that

Creature - Shapeshifter Color tag templates(None) Felidar Cub Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment