I am largely pasting a post I made at Salvation here. I am anxious to hear opinions on this. Please excuse the overkill.

As we all have been, I was poring over the spoiler for Time Spiral when it hit me - Carrionette!

Was that cryptic enough? Are you thoroughly confused? Good.
Did you know that if you activate Carrionette and the opponent pays the it is not removed from the game? That is because for some strange reason Wizards decided to have the removal of Carrionette be part of the resolution and not a cost. Look at the wording, the colon comes before any mention of removing it from the game. For that same reason, you can actually activate it, and if you have the mana, activate it again before the first one resolves. In fact, for each you spend, provided the opponent can not spring for the prevention mana, you get to remove a creature from the game. It doesn't matter what happens to Carrionette once the ability is on the stack. There is no intervening "if" clause such as the oracle wording on Goblin Welder or Parallax Wave. If Carrionette were not outclassed by today's graveyard sleazes, this sort of interaction could be common in Legacy circles. Now why did I mention any of this? Mangara of Corondor is why.

Mangara of Corondor
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
T: Remove Mangara of Corondor and target permanent from the game.
"I have been brought to this place and I cannot leave. I may be free of the amber, but I am still in prison."
Illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
1/1


If I have the following permanents in play, I can have a lot of fun with this guy:
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Concordant Crossroads or similar effect
1 Karakas

Can you see the sleaze? It works like this:
1. Play Mangara
2. Tap him to remove something ugly
3. Before resolution of that effect, untap him with Quirion Ranger
4. Tap him again for a new target
5. Return him to your hand with Karakas

Result: any two targets removed from the game and Mangara is in your hand where he started. Got an Aether Vial? Then make it 4 permanents and Mangara goes with them. My only question is whether Mangara's ability removes him even if he is in the wrong zone (your hand) upon resolution. I can't think of an example of this and I do not know the rule well enough.
Now on to the deck.

//crappy yet synergistic deck fragment
4 Mangara of Corondor
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Concordant Crossroads
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Glowrider
4 Loxodon Hierarch
3 Hokori Dust Drinker
4 Aether Vial
4 Ice Storm
3 Watchwolf
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
3 Karakas
4 Savannah
3 Flagstones of Trokair
4 Windswept Heath
1 Plains
5 Forest
//

Probably a pile, but it has sleaze potential. We should take this somewhere. And if you like Standard, you'll love this card:

Scryb Ranger
Creature - Faerie
Flash (You may play this spell any time you could play an instant.)
Flying, protection from blue
Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Play this ability only once each turn.
Illus. Rebecca Guay
1/1

to sleaze him with fewer distractions.