This means Abrupt Decay easily answers those cards while also being a nice answer to early pressure from aggro decks
9 Mint Careful examination may reveal a minor flaw (micro-scratch, minor color defect, print line, white point, etc.), or the card may not be perfectly centered
Kederekt Leviathan returns everything, even your stuff, which is either better or worse than an overloaded Cyclonic Rift depending on what your deck is doing
(6/1/2012) If, during a player's declare blockers step, a creature is tapped or it's affected by a spell or ability that says it can't block, then it doesn't block
This is especially true if you're going to buy a copy of Nexus of Fate anyway, since that basically amounts to a hard $25 off the cost of your box
So he's already a worse Aladdin and that Aladdin barely saw play and mostly only as a Shift target for Aladdin - Heroic Outlaw