Unless you're lucky enough to find exactly the cards you need in boosters, you'll need to earn a stack of Wildcards to craft the best decks
Magic: the Gathering is a game about not dropping down to 0 life, so increasing your total life as much as possible is a sound strategy
Chronomaly Temple - Trilithon X SPELL Continuous If you control no monsters, or all monsters you control are "Chronomaly" monsters: You can pay 500 LP
Gerry Thompson, Brad Nelson, and Brian Braun-Duin were all planning on playing a pretty solid-looking U/W/R Control deck, but I didnt have any Jace, Architect of Thought, Entreat the Angels, Terminus, or Steam Vents
You can use it to get cards needed for your hand, such as Digimon for digivolutions or Tamers for future moves