So what tends to happen is that eager beavers will trade for a couple of pieces from some exciting new deck (generally right after they see it perform well on stream and the prices are at their highest) only to give up once they realize, holy mackerel, Vengevine is itself a $50 card and Leyline of the Void is up to $60 and you need a playset of Arid Mesa and wait, how much is Blackcleave Cliffs these days
(Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokemon) 100
Cycle through these steps, netting an extra Thopter each time, then sacrifice an arbitrary number of Thopters for near-infinite mana
Squirrel decks often have a sacrifice or death payoff subtheme, and you use this green artifact to trigger those while growing your army of squirrels in both size and number
1 Like occam January 13, 2021, 5:05pm 4 CGC is taking a huge risk with the playtest cards, though
Lightning decks tend to run glass-cannon strategies, so a solid Fighting wall can short-circuit them fast