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The second is paying a total boat load of life to do so

Leaf-Crowned Elder and Bosk Banneret play into this design space, allowing you to pay less for your spells, or even cast them for free from the top of your library

The only way to prevent you from getting your hand completely wrecked is to sideboard in a bunch of creatures (or a bunch of lands, but I dont really see the point of that) or to Thought Erasure or Duress away Distortion, in which case youre playing black and may as well play Thought Distortion yourself and try to wreck their hand instead

I guess that were lucky that Dockside Extortionist was banned, because I dont know that I need to see three of them every turn