Pir, Imaginative Rascal Pir, Imaginative Rascal is slightly different than Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion, but its so much better if you have access to Toothy, Imaginary Friend
This allows you to save a great deal of mana, and get a ton of value out of cards like Colossus Hammer that possess a very low mana cost, but a very high equip cost
Intermediate Counter Burn - how it looked a year ish ago after M12 hit 24 Spells Lightening Bolt Burst Lightening Ancestral Visions Spell Pierce Remand Fire / Ice Arc Trail Arcane Denial Counterspell Lat-Nam's Legacy Chandra's Phoenix Vendilion Clique Manic Vandal Sea Gate Oracle Jace, the Mind Sculptor Chandra, the Fireheart Cryptic Command Time Warp Treachery Force of Will Inferno Titan Wurmcoil Engine Consecrated Sphinx Rolling Earthquake 16 Lands Izzet Boilerworks Volcanic Island Steam Vents Scalding Tarn Shivan Reef Cascade Bluffs Faerie Conclave 3 Mountains 6 Islands Counter burn had risen to the best control deck and arguably the best archetype in my cube and then they went and released Innistrad block which is probably the single biggest block in terms of contributing power cards to the archetype
Dropping a Phylath, World Sculptor on turn six creates six plants, resulting in a 128-power trampler that can end games in a single swing
