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Some Gruul players have opted for a light blue splash to enable cards like Negate and Disdainful Stroke from the board

Bender's Waterskin works best with cheap cantrips, but Wilderness Reclamation and Seedborn Muse are the gold standard: You can spend all your mana on your turn, then still untap to hold up whichever instants you like against your opponents

These replacements werent finished with Fifth Edition and it would certainly cause issues with older players, or players who had been playing longer, loosing cards theyd played with since the beginning

So, it's card advantage early, and a beater later, pretty flexible