Quote Originally Posted by frafen View Post
Gotta play around surgical extactions.
If your aim is to do that you are required to play taiga lest all your trops are surgicaled out of existence and you are left with all these green cards/creatures in hand.

Ponder is by far the best because it see's the most cards. The choice to shuffle is huge when combined with brainstorm or you just see trash whereas if the top 3 are trash with preordain you're keeping 1 no matter what and that isn't the case with ponder. Ponder, by general concensus, is more powerful than preordain just hear about some ANT players bitch about preordain and you'll see why.