If your opponent mills your entire deck, you usually have until your next draw step to solve that problem somehow, whether that means winning the game yourself or finding a way to put cards back into your library
Collective Defiance For 5 total mana and two escalates, Collective Defiance allows you to essentially wheel a players hand, remove a medium-sized creature, and throw 3 damage at an opponents face
Theres something about the mechanical automaton imposter in Cathar gear that really gets me going
Blackmail does scale well with other discard more so than most and as such I have played it in Rack themed black decks before which want a heavy number of discard cards
The cards in that set sold on the English Premium Bandai will also be in Japanese
was first released in the set Warhammer 40,000 Commander, illustrated by Artur Nakhodkin