And the support has been awesome
Assuming you can cast enough spells using that engine, the Ascendancy even provides a possible win condition as that mana accelerant will reach twenty power eventually
Infect doesn't defend creatures with too much countermagic anyway) Green Melira, Sylvok Outcast Nature's Claim Vines of Vastwood Fog Seal of Primordium Honorable mention: Choke It's a trap!: Beast Within (three mana for removal is way too expensive, especially if it's vulnerable to Skite/Blessing/Vines) Multicolored Deflecting Palm Zealous Persecution Fulminator Mage Izzet Staticaster Crackling Doom Honorable mention: Golgari Charm It's a trap!: Abrupt Decay (Too expensive, stopped by Skite/Vines/Blessing, can't even hit Inkmoth) Colorless Spellskite Chalice of the Void Engineered Explosives Ensnaring Bridge Pithing Needle Honorable mention: Platinum Angel It's a trap!: Relic of Progenitus (Shouldn't have to say this, but I see it all the time
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Smagol Landfall Smagol, Helpful Guide | Illustration by Campbell White Commander (1) Planeswalkers (2) Nissa of Shadowed Boughs Nissa, Vital Force Creatures (34) Ancient Greenwarden Arvinox, the Mind Flail Ashaya, Soul of the Wild Avenger of Zendikar Bloodghast Cankerbloom Compy Swarm Dnedain Rangers Fleshbag Marauder Gollum, Patient Plotter Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer Honest Rutstein Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia Kazandu Mammoth Lotus Cobra Morbid Opportunist Mosswood Dreadknight Nazgl Ob Nixilis, the Fallen Old Man Willow Plaguecrafter Rampaging Baloths Ramunap Excavator Reassembling Skeleton Ringwraiths Sakura-Tribe Elder Sauron, the Necromancer Scute Swarm Sporemound Tireless Provisioner Tireless Tracker Undergrowth Champion Wasteland Raider Woe Strider Sorceries (11) Boundless Realms Claim the Precious Genesis Wave Green Sun's Zenith Harvest Season Lash of the Balrog Reanimate Rise of the Dark Realms Rise of the Witch-king Sam's Desperate Rescue The Ring Goes South Instants (2) Assassin's Trophy Khalni Ambush Artifacts (4) Conduit of Worlds Inherited Envelope Staff of Titania Tarrian's Journal Enchantments (14) Animate Dead Awakening Zone Call of the Ring Curse of the Restless Dead Deathreap Ritual Evolutionary Leap Insidious Roots Moldervine Reclamation One Ring to Rule Them All Phyrexian Reclamation Primeval Bounty Retreat to Hagra Shortcut to Mushrooms Zendikar's Roil Lands (32) Barad-dr Blighted Woodland Brokers Hideout Cabaretti Courtyard Dryad Arbor Echoing Deeps Escape Tunnel Evolving Wilds Fabled Passage Forest x8 Grim Backwoods High Market Maestros Theater Obscura Storefront Promising Vein Riveteers Overlook Shire Terrace Swamp x7 Terramorphic Expanse Smagol, Helpful Guide is one of the only cards that adds new ways for the Ring to tempt you

While it isn't especially powerful, gaining two life right away and some more when it chump blocks means it is good enough in a reasonable number of decks