Kodama of the West Tree Who would win
Speed 9 Power 1 Flex 1: Merchant of the Vale (1 mana discard spell, fast but that's all there is) 9, 2, 4: Bone Shards (also fast, but generally more relevant mid/late) 7, 5, 1: Cathartic Reunion (powerful but inflexible, seen in dredge) 7, 2, 4: Cathartic Pyre (flexible but weak) 7, 3, 2: Thrill of Possibility (less all in version of Cathartic Reunion) 7, 3, 4: Bitter Reunion (more flexible vers
Winds of Change is our cheapest wheel effect, still great, the one downside is the fact that it doesn't discard, since we have some ways to punish opponents for discarding too and some ways to recurr our graveyard
I've already done several Top Ten columns (The Write Stuff and Ice Guys Finish First for example), so I decided that for a Top Ten week I'd do the next obvious thing A Top Ten Top Ten column
is a powerful spell that gives you an army you can swing in with immediately for some serious damage
With a deck that loves to cast big creatures, the rest of a Ruby Commander deck should focus on empowering those big-mana critters and ensuring that you're able to refill your hand after you cast all those ramp spells