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Youre not building a zombie deck here, but the typical wheel-and-deal decks get a huge boost with Nekusar at the helm

The player phrasing also helps if youre playing some kind of 2v2 format, allowing your teammate to draw cards and replace part of a dud hand

Quest for Ulas Temple can get a counter, you can set up Sapling of Colfenor for a massive attack of life gain and draw the card, you can find abilities for Skill Borrower, play it with Garruks Horde, haste it out with Impromptu Raid, find a use for Descendants Path, and so forth

Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list

If there are no legal targets available for the first two modes, you must choose the last mode