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Its +1 also keeps your own hand full, all while it inches opponents closer to defeat

Devils in MTG are no different and bring these aspects to your builds

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead

That makes Recoil one of those cards that has a hard time being bad until the point when your opponent has extra lands they can hold in their hand in order to discard them, at which point most decks that run Recoil are either using that as an excuse to crank up the discard engine or more likely happy enough to have survived this long that they don't care

While I was not playing when it came out, I did have a Mirage themed calendar which featured alternative and unused card art

Unlike most MTG cards nowadays, Floodpits Drowner has no fancy borderless or alternative art variants