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Your opponent is often taxed on answers to Restless Reef, with only Get Lost to handle it which has no shortage of targets already

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So practically anything you do that would affect an opponent, and you can pay one black mana to return Forsaken Miner from your graveyard to the battlefield

My final advice would be: use the basic frame structure as a constraint (limitation breeds creativity, Mark Rosewater says), and if needed work from there to create new details that are really meaningful for the game, and be more careful not to create more noise

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