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At the top end, you have Spined Tyrranax, which only costs you five mana, tied with Slinza in cost
Combine it with Bloomburrows Starscape Cleric (and other options), and then all you need to do is make the opponent lose a single life to start a combination that wins on the spot
Recruit Recruit is a less villainous Connive, as it lets you draw then discard a card, but if you discard a nonland card, you create a 1/1 Human soldier creature token
Creaturefall cards appear in all colors, though they tend to focus around the Naya shard, as those colors care the most about creatures