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Matt Tabak, Senior Game Designer, Magic R&D Christopher Rush was a joy when I knew him back in the early days of Wizards of the Coast
This is a very powerful control tool, absolutely perfect for how a control deck wants to play
The First Sliver Slivers are a powerful and popular tribe, infamous for granting their abilities to every other sliver you play
As Specialists lets you choose a creature type, it is just efficient in general and fits decks that focus on Zombies, Demons, Humans, Angels, Clerics, and many others
Combined with recurrence like that offered by Gisa and Geralf, and blacks frequent use of sacrifice mechanics, and you can keep that creature tapped out indefinitely