Looking at this card, and some of the lotus hopefuls in the MTG card pool, I set some ground rules for this list : It must be called a lotus in some way, It must be able to generate at least 3 mana, It must be a black-bordered card
Cards like Anointed Procession and Doubling Season spin out of control, especially if those are the permanents you copy
Most recently, Luis Scott-Vargas got second place in a Pro Tour with a Boros Aggro deck featuring four Pridemates and very few ways of gaining life
Rewind Rewind is perhaps the worst free counterspell you can play since it requires mana upfront, and I find it generally unimpressive, but it has its uses
Covered in black fabric, the board is devoid of all decoration except for the sharp white lines designating the zones for players' active and benched Pokmon, a discard pile, each player's deck, and the prize cards