The cost of the card is sufficiently low that you can use it more easily past disruption and even if you fail it is not quite such a savage blowout
13-11) Forge[/author]]Darksteel [author name="Forge"]Forge[/author] ($12), Mycosynth Golem ($12), Mycosynth Lattice ($6) Everyone knows about the tournament-playable artifact rares in Mirrodin block, and most people are keen on the mana producers as wellcards like Extraplanar Lens and Gilded Lotus that have been powering up Commander for years
Black has a bunch, including the infamous Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond combo and its variants
The mechanic tested great, and when we ran some focus groups, it actually ranked as one of our highest rated mechanics ever! Magic's Head Designer Mark Rosewater considers villainous choice a 6 on the Storm Scale (which is an informal scale used to communicate to players how likely a mechanic is to return
If you have no other synergy in your deck, you can untap some lands to make this a 2 mana spell instead of a 4 mana one
