Byway Barterer is a tricky card to keep going, but if youre able to keep your handsize down to one or two cards, expending four and discarding your hand could enable graveyard strategies , madness, discard triggers, or simply draw enough cards to keep the smackdown going
They won't be available with this release, but we'll have more information on how you can obtain these lands and other showcase card styles in a future update.) Theros Beyond Death also heralds the return of Sagas, devotion, and constellation to Standard play, as well as the addition of the new keyword escape
It also gives us a card that we can cast from our graveyard after our opponent mills it, while exiling cards from our graveyard is a good way to power down Rogue threats like Thieves' Guild Enforcer and Soaring Thought-Thief, which really need eight cards in our graveyard to be at full strength
Noxious Ghoul is a Zombie I always want to be playing, and so running it in this deck is a no-brainer (because he ate the brain already, right?)