Despite Betors seemingly steep requirements to do its thing, reaching 10 total toughness is a breeze in a deck full of creatures with inflated toughness
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Its easier to destroy since it can also fall to land destruction, but there arent that many people who play ways to destroy basic lands
This does have the weakness of being weaker later in the game when they might have a developed board and dont need to cast spells