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Artifact Swiftfoot Boots Equipped creature has hexproof and haste
Whispers of the Muse (T1, Ext, S, Block) A favorite in "Turbo Xerox" (a blue deck which used minimal land but a ton of cantrips to thin out the deck), Counter-Phoenix (Shard Phoenix + Forbid) and Tradewind-Awakening (put Awakening on the stack, tap all your lands for mana, untap all your lands), Whispers has what might seem like a hefty price to pay for one card but you get to do it turn after turn after turn
Since the entire deck relies on Gix, we run a bunch of ways to keep him on the battlefield such as Undying Malice and Undying Evil to protect him and Unearth or Call of the Death-Dweller to get him back from the graveyard
The game had everything
Crystalline Sliver lets you protect your valuable slivers with shroud