This is the fourth part in my blog installments about my favorite set: Future Sight. You can read my reasons for liking this set so much on the original post (http://mtgdeckblogaura.blogspot.com/2011/01/magic-gathering-future-sight-part-1.html), but if that is where you came from, then enjoy these next cards.
New Benalia is a great alternative to a plains card because it gives white a little opportunity to scry, a very useful ability in virtually any deck. Your opening hand has too many lands? Well play this and make sure the next card isn't. Late game it can also protect you from unwanted draws so that you can get what you really need.
Nix is a rather unique counterspell. It only costs 1 to play and it counters anything that was played without a mana cost. In the context of the Time Spiral block, this makes perfect sense because of all the threats with suspend out there. Nowadays, it can be useful to stop your opponents from cheating things into play with cascade or something, but isn't much use over its brethren: Counterspell.
Patrician's Scorn is a white instant that costs 4 and destroys all enchantments. Its use comes with its second ability, which allows you to play it for nothing if you have played another white spell this turn. If you have no enchantments, mass enchantment removal can be more useful than singular enchantment removal, and the 0 cost is the icing on the cake.
Quagnoth is an interesting creature with an ability that protects your hand from some discard spells, and makes a nifty all around creature. This card is virtually uncounterable with its split second ability and has shroud, protecting it from a lot of removal. It is nice to have out, but a little costly for what you get.
Riddle of Lighting is a pretty powerful card for red, giving a scry 3 mixed in with a damager, maybe turning an Eldrazi in your deck into a 12 damage lightning bolt.
Rift Elemental is a cheap card and may help any suspend deck you have. For two mana, you can remove a time counter from a permanent or suspended card you own, and then on top of that, Rift Elemental gets +2/+0.
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