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It gets the job done

As we get into Rare and Super Rare the ink cost can be up to 8, with a larger amount of cards having two or three effects

The main way to lose initiative is to take combat damage from an opposing creature, which in turn grants the initiative to the attacking player

They even stuck a picture of Magic 's most famous Dragon on it

The bigger a format's card pool, the less impact new cards will have (on average) since only a few are strong enough to matter, thus partially shielding these formats from the Too Many Cards problem

While often not seeing play in red deck wins the deck is more than happy to see this kind of effect coming from their opponents