Originally Posted by
MaximumC
Aethersnipe is great as a toolbox card, yeah, but it also opens up an alternative win condition without Griffin. With Emrakul (or Progenitus) you can only cast it if you're comboing out anyway. Grislebrand gives you this line of play:
Ingredients: Fierce Empath, Food Chain, some way to cast Empath and generate another 1UU. (Sac a wall, for example)
1. Cast Empath, fetch Aethersnipe.
2. Evoke Aethersnipe targeting Empath. Retain priority.
3. Sacrifice Aethersnipe to Food Chain for seven green mana. Allow stack to resolve.
4. Cast Empath, fetch Grislebrand (GGGG in pool)
5. Sacrifice Empath to Food Chain for four black mana, for a total of GGGG + BBBB in pool.
6. Hard cast Grislebrand.
From there, I typically draw 7 right away because you're very likely to hit a Griffin or a way to get one, and then you just go bonkers dumping your hand.