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Each member of Marvel's first family gets some kind of perk or buff at the beginning of combat if you've played a non-creature spell this turn, along with a second activated ability that costs four total mana

Whiptongue Hydra also starts as a 4/4 rather than a 2/2, so it wont take much for this creature to become a serious threat once it comes down

While I'm sure there are instance where you'll need to -2 to kill a creature, I would expect this to be the exception rather than the norm

Both of these decks also have subthemes: the landfall deck, Lands Wrath, has an animating lands subtheme with cards like Planar Outburst

Then trade a life to copy the activated and triggered abilities of the last one here