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Academy Rector cuts out the middle man, garnering both card advantage and free spells

The mana cost on Atraxa is a bit intimidating at , but you get a formidable 7/7 for your opponents to contend with

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead

The card now counts as 1 Ink you can use to pay for other cards

This is easily the weakest recursion in the list, you have to pay five and you have to have a dork to put it on and you can lose that dork and your bonus value fairly easily to removal or trickery

The 1 life lost per card is not to be discounted, but these are the colors to be in if you need to regain life