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The New Stuff
    OK, let's start off with the newly-released spoiler for Betrayers of Kamigawa.  I just
saw it, so I'm learning as you are.  When I see a card I like, I will comment on it here.

    
Blazing Shoal. This has some uses.  Escape Artist comes to mind, and you don't
even need to be playing red. 
Spikeshot Goblin is another possibility, and I happen to like
Spikeshot myself.  Blazing Shoal could easily go in a deck with Spikeshot +
Goblin
Sledder
, an obscure but useful Onslaught common, and a bunch of small goblins.

    
Empty-Shrine Kannushi. Umm...Wow.  One mana with protection from stuff...
colored stuff...  A card that comes to mind is
Wild Mongrel.

    
Heartless Hidetsugu. This card definitely punishes players with high life totals with
a very severe punishment.  The downside is that the punishment it gives isn't final.  I
believe that you should always give a player their
Final Punishment.  (Hint hint, it's a
combo, stupid.)

    
Kitsune Palliator.  I'm not sure if I should like this or hate it.  It's finally a response
to
Tremor.  But then again, it is a response to Tremor, which is a really good card in my
opinion.  Regardless, I need four of these for my Cleric deck.

    
Matsu-Tribe Sniper.  Gee, this is a hard one.  (*lays on sarcasm thick.*)  I
wonder...if
Pemmin's Aura might just be a...combo!  Of course, this is actually a pretty
convenient card without fast untapping.  There are a lot of creatures that you want tapped
now, and tapped later, that your opponent may control.

    
Neko-Te.  Look!  It's a Somnophore!  Well, not quite, but sure is close.  Prodigal
Sorcerer
or red pinging creatures come to mind.

    
Phantom Wings.  I don't even have a combo for this card.  I just put it on here
because its flavor text refers to
Squee.

    
Reduce to Dreams.  Did Wizards of the Coast R&D forget that they just got finished
printing an
artifact cycle?!?  Or that they made Mycosynth Lattice?  Fortunately, some
people like me didn't.  This combo seems pretty stupid, but I mean, think about it!  You
return everyone's permanents to their hands!  It's just so much fun.

    
Shimmering Glasskite.  This card would be really awesome if it was a flagbearer.
But isn't that what
Coalition Flag is for?  If you wanted total lockdown, play Rule of Law,
and any spell or ability that could target a creature is countered!  BOOM!

    
Ward of PietyFlagbearers are always fun.  So are the en-Kor creatures.  Either
way, your main goal is to get damage aimed at the enchanted creature so that you can
deflect it.


     So, what's the best combo in Betrayers of Kamigawa?  Or is it just a matter of taste?
Do you really want the answer?  You do?  Are you sure?  Well, scroll down...
Heartless Hidetsugu halves the player's life total...and Final Punishment kills them!
Oh, you have three Krosan Cloudscrapers?  I'll pay 2 blue mana, they're tapped.
Just try to touch this card......
T: Heartless Hidetsugu deals to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.
Each time target permanent would deal damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.