FINAL FANTASY: WHITE Clerics get good support out of the gates with Aerith Gainsborough and Minwu, White Mage
Got an Armaggon, Future Shark in your opening hand
Granted, this path and the ones involving tokens lean a lot more in the combo direction than the mana acceleration direction, but its definitely worth noting Carnival of Souls capability of being useful outside unreliable 3-4 card loops in these strategies, as it gets a bad rap Im not convinced it fully deserves when reading about its capabilities elsewhere
Another route to help boost your deck is using cards that protect from board destruction effects, like Heroic Intervention or Eldrazi Monument to make them indestructible
Enchanted cards in Shimmering Skies have new text box and border designs which allow for more of the full art to be seen, as compared to the Enchanted cards in sets 1-4 For the first time, Legendary cards in this set have a raised texture on certain parts of the art like the character and some effects
