The ability to remove counters from your sagas to continue to keep it on the board or continue to trigger the same chapter each turn is a primary motivator for me to tackle this deck at all
These sort of cards are vanishingly rare because it combines care and luck from the printing process all the way to opening the pack with potentially grubby fingers
The Soul Stone Even without all the harnessing and sacrifice text, The Soul Stone would be playable purely as an indestructible, untapped mana rock for 2 mana
And, of course, you can give flowers when it isn't February 14, we suppose
The downside is definitely real but the upside is enough that this is something youre always going to play, and something youll take very early A one mana 1/1 with Deathtouch is usually solid
In those days, a popular sequence was to open with Dark Ritual into a Black Knight or pump knight, with a Thrull Retainer to make an immediate threat that beat both Swords to Plowshares and Lightning Bolt
