While all colors have access to some form of removal spells, blue mages make do with bounce spells that provide only a temporary reprieve from the horrors of your opponents playing Magic, but that can be all the time the right deck needs
With their recent reprints in Battles of Legend: Armageddon, I decided to compare these retrained dragons to the originals
The answer here is that it is much, much easier to build a functional deck with all oddconverted mana cost cards than it is to build one with evenconverted mana cost cards
Some decks combine this strategy with cards that punish your opponent each time your creatures die (such as Blood Artist), and this has seen lots of success in winning decks
Meanwhile, Sengir Vampire, Serra Angel, and Shivan Dragon have been staple core set reprints over the years
60-card World Championships Deck