These three abilities, by the way, can be done with less than half the letters of Animate Dead
MTGO specs from Vintage Masters selected using my preferred Card Evaluation Formula (% of metagame x # copies played/deck) have yielded very good returns in a very short period of time
Kicker is one of Magics most popular mechanics
This makes Maddow a reusable counterspell for one blue and a colorless, which is technically cheaper than the original counterspell (two blue), a card which was reprinted as cancel, which is identical except for costing more, because it was broken at the original cost
Thematically, the decks follow the pattern of previous Modern archetypes such as Jund, Eldrazi Winter, Energy, and UrzaTron
For example, here on Jundthe green, black, and red piece of Alara that brought us the There's also another ability that's next to this symbol and talks about chaos ensuingwe'll get to that in a second