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While this is unlikely to stop a game-ending threat, being able to stop irritating early-game plays for just one mana is not to be underrated

This card, often called the "Holy Grail" of the entire trading card hobby, sold for over $7.25 million in 2022

Fake cards have gotten disturbingly good

Each opponent loses X life, you gain X life, and the topmost creature card in your library perpetually gets +X/+X, where X is the number of counters removed this way

Paying life for anything is pretty scary when you first start

Flash is a strong and necessary selling point for me, and the relatively easy-to-pay mana value makes it very flexible in differing white Commander decks