As a result of this, the decks should have a lot of easy and obvious avenues for improvement
You can still counter the activated ability of a Clue itself, but thats completely separate
Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained
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However, Interface Ace gets around this by untapping it when it becomes tapped the first time
Well red has no end to cards like Purphoros, God of the Forge that can ping opponents when creatures enter the battlefield, and black has no end to cards like Blood Artist that ping opponents when they kill those creatures