In a few months, you'll start the cycle again
The default mode is always Counter + the best of the other effects for the board state
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If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions
(The ranking was called Eternal at the time) I occasionally fell from the top spot, but I would regain it and stay at number one in Japan for quite a long time
However, theres an awful lot of creature cards in March of the Machine (and other sets, of course) which have two sides, as well as the aforementioned Battle cards