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Iron Valiant ex has a storied competitive history, primarily due to its Tachyon Bits ability, which allows you to place damage counters on the opponents Pokmon just by moving Iron Valiant into the Active Spot

A lot of times, just the threat of making them indestructible is good enough to make opponents let them through, especially with Goreclaw giving a size boost and trample to your larger creatures

I have put a great deal of faith into the Dragon-based control strategy and they have dominated in the testing games Ive played so far

Sometimes countering the first swords on our big creature wins the game

EDIT: This apparently also applies to the SM1+ set

For my personal Sram, Senior Edificer deck, my deck's goal is to put down Sram, put down one of these discount dorks, and then start chaining together as many auras as possible, casting Angelic Gift into Chosen by Heliod into Arrest into All That Glitters and so on