Storm-Kiln Artist A key card in a spellslinger and/or Treasures deck, Storm-Kiln Artist is a must-include in a number of decks, including just about everything in Izzet and just about every deck that runs Krark, the Thumbless as one of its commanders
Archive Trap Archive trap may not be all that great at first glance since it requires your opponent to search for a card to be cast for free but that effect triggers on search lands as well
In the early game, this nets you some early advantage
The addition of this little art change to the reprints created a cool feel, and if you were at the prerelease, they pushed that even further with re-arted cards that demonstrated the time travel idea, often in suitably real ways
This theme works on three levels: Payoffs (i.e., Judge Magister Gabranth, Al Bhed Salvagers) Sacrifice outlets (i.e., Phantom Train, Namazu Trader, Ahriman) Fodder (Hecteyes, job select equipment, Rufus Shinras poor disposable dog) A good WB deck has a healthy mix of all three, plus lots of strong removal spells like White Auracite and Sephiroth's Intervention
Wrap-Up Heading into our matches, I was expecting this to be an Against the Odds deck where we lost a ton but pulled off a super-spectacular kill a small percentage of the time