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The sacrifice ability comes in clutch here, providing lifegain and card draw to ensure you have the resources to win the race

When Linvala, The Preserver enters the battlefield, you gain five life if your opponent has more than you, offering an instant lifeline

(2023-02-04) If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters

However, Maze's End decks have existed long before Golos ever printed, and they will continue to exist without him

Mark Hernandez famously finished second in the previous years World Championship, with just a single copy of Sleight of Mind in his sideboard (and just two Adarkar Wastes to cast it)