Plunder the Trollshaws
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A strong value common that cycles cheaply early, then provides real card advantage when flashed back for two cards. It is especially useful in WU decks with second-card-drawn payoffs and discard outlets.
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Gameplay notes
Cast it for {1}{U} when you need to hit land drops, but avoid spending mana on the front half if developing the board is more important. Recruit and other discard effects can place it directly into the graveyard, effectively turning it into a future four-mana draw-two; when supporting second-draw triggers, cast it before combat.
Key synergies
Bilbo reduces the flashback cost to {2}{U}, and his attack trigger can cast Plunder from the graveyard for its upgraded draw-two effect.
Putting Plunder into the graveyard pile turns it into a live flashback spell that draws two cards, making that pile much less costly to surrender.
Bard doubles Plunder's extra draws, making the normal casting draw two cards and the flashback casting draw four cards.
Plunder is a cheap noncreature spell that replaces itself and triggers Gandalf, then flashback lets the same card trigger him a second time while drawing two cards.
Casting Plunder after the normal draw for the turn immediately triggers Bard, adding a +1/+1 counter and granting lifelink for combat.
Ravenhill Flock gets a +1/+1 counter for every card drawn, so the flashback half places two counters on it at instant speed.
Plunder easily supplies the second draw needed to trigger the Councillors, and flashing it back also removes a card from the graveyard only after threshold resources have already helped make it available.
Bilbo can discard Plunder the Trollshaws during his loot trigger without losing access to it, then its flashback turns the discarded card into two fresh cards.
Plunder triggers Bothersome Noisemaker on its initial cast and again when cast with flashback, while its card draw supplies more spells to continue the Noisemaker engine.
Speak Secrets can mill Plunder the Trollshaws into the graveyard, where it remains available through flashback and draws two cards instead of one; alternatively, Speak Secrets can return it to hand.
Recruit can discard Plunder the Trollshaws as the nonland card needed to create a Soldier, after which Plunder remains usable from the graveyard and draws two cards through flashback.