However, the fact that you need another card to make this work, and not have the flexibility to fetch for any Legendary equipment, limits this ability
As much fun as it sounds to flood everyone with cards and watch them drop armies of horrifying everything 5 turns into the game with the goal to hopefully steal some (note: it never works), we needed something a little bit more competative
I was very skeptical about bringing back poison counters and phyrexian mana in 2023, but all it took to fix those was limiting phyrexian costs to activated abilities and making creatures deal a fixed amount of poison damage instead of tying it to power
Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result
The Neo series also gave us our first Shining cards, including Gyarados, Magikarp, Charizard, Mewtwo and Tyranitar
Thats a dumb number for a card that has only existed for a little longer than two years