But as anybody who has ever played against this card for ante can tell you, even if you ante up your Black Lotus to the Contract, you're still going to win the game based on the biggest card advantage the best card-advantage card in Magic can get you
Bouncing all of your creatures until the next end step is a brilliant way of dodging board wipes, and also a means of triggering any enters and leaves the battlefield triggers you have again
When Sage Owl enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order
While only an allied cycle it didn't really matter given you can basically fix anything with them in concert with the original duals
Well, with Declaration in Stone, Tragic Arrogance, Dromokas Command, and a few enchantment-based removal spells in my deck already, Den Protector provided me a way to get back one of my removal spells while also playing quite nicely against control as a grindy card that could recur threats