Decks like Dragapult ex/Iron Thorns ex play this card to set up their entire gameplan on their first turn, making it a necessity in many of the current format's evolution-centric decks
If the deck did nothing but put the fourth Demonic Consultation in every deck with Necropotence, that would have been enough to memorialize LauerPotence, but other defining characteristics, such as its strict adherence to curve and its positioning of Firestorm (seen again in Randy's Tax Rack deck, above) were important additions to the Magic deck design vocabulary.
The Energy cost of each attack is displayed on the left side
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At the end of the day, removal keeps you in the game long enough for your game plan to matter.
You can wipe out every creature that isn't Smaug, and if you have the most life, you can win the game on the spot, burning out every opponent's life total