If you dont have Mana Echoes out, you can achieve the same effect with Sliver Queen, Cloudshredder Sliver, Gemhide Sliver, and Training Grounds on the battlefield
TheChirurgeon: These "X Magic" cards are just fantastic ways to model the tiered spells of Final Fantasy and the modal mode makes a lot more sense - and allows for a lot more flexibility - than just doing multikicker, where you can have nonlinear scaling
The Cap allowed you to remove three cards from your opponents deck and the Mask allowed you to give your opponent a new hand, all land, no land, all things too expensive for them to cast, its your call
which resulted in my having play every round of the Top 8
I know that you are reading a Magic column, not a "Maths R Us" column