By far the best early game plays for this deck are Fred, Mascot By Day and Institute of Technology, Prestigious University
Creatures with Fading or Echo are imperfect copies, pulled out of the aether too quickly and dissolving back into it
In every other deck though, you don't ever want to use this
It's a better finisher, but it cannot be used to kill a dork like your Blaze variant, but still, this is clearly going to be a better class of card
On top of giving near immunity to counters, red and black have a ton of creature and artifact removal effects, and with Shadow giving them split second, you can get around most tricks that other colors can use to protect their permanents
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