Many players have recently opted to include Air Balloon instead of Rescue Board for greater switching flexibility
If a vanilla 2/2 is the classic two-mana creature, then a 1/1 with this ability suggests that forcing an opponent to discard is worth roughly one power and one toughness worth of stats
That said, it is one of the only legitimate ways a Standard Cycling deck has to interact with opposing permanents in Game 1
Similarly, it can't be attacked and damage can't be dealt to it
None of them are powerful enough to actually stand up against newer decks, and support for them is released so infrequently that by the time they release, weve moved onto a new thing
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