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The power to spend two counters from it to essentially draw a card is immense when it costs no additional mana, and the fact that you get +1/+1 counters for lands or spells is the cherry on top, or was it the keyword soup

This means the above Pikachu card can only take a maximum of fifty damage, or have five damage counters on it, because anymore means it would be knocked out

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The reward of damage, lifegain, and card advantage makes this a surprisingly impactful black creature

And while not new to the latest set, I do just have to call out two powerful cards that really make this deck sing, and those are Dumbo and a little song card called Into the Unknown. Dumbo has been an absolute killer in the competitive Lorcana scene since he came out in Fabled, unlocking an insane draw/lore gaining combo thats not really been seen in the same way before