Here, I will describe how to play against each theme
Building your deck with the Bracket systemor another power leveling system if your friend group or LGS prefersmakes games much more even, as youre unlikely to roll up to a random table and get stomped by a cEDH deck, or stomp a different pod with your highly tuned, high-power deck
Cast this in response, taking control of all the Rift owners' creatures, then those go back to hand while all of your creatures are safe (unless they have a sac outlet or something, that is less than ideal but still hoses their creatures)
If we are so afraid of offending people, we will never be able to tell the full story or start a healthy conversation about that topic
It got a huge boost in The Lord of the Rings from Boromir, Warden of the Tower and Gollum, Patient Plotter helping generate some of those infinite loops
All that leads to getting a new Birthmark and being revived