The idea of wielding sacrifice abilities as a tool to control the table gets even more appealing when you realize how low the opportunity cost of doing things this way is
Forget the Diabolic Tutor option
All of this is a longwinded way of saying that, at this time, my assumption is that I was playing very likely the best deck ever constructed for tournament play
The Color Blue in Ice Age: As Controlling as Ever and slightly Larger The important things about Blue in Ice Age is that it retained Counterspell and Power Sink, as well as, being able to match the large flyers in other colors and sets with Sibilant Spirit
After all, we spend lots of time, money, and effort building our EDH decks and we want them to play the way we drew them up
Torment of Hailfire holds a gun to your opponents' heads and tells them to either sacrifice their permanents or lose three life several times