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These creatures are evasive and can quickly pressure your opponent

If you want to make things easy, build a deck that includes Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar

(2025-09-19) If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives

Players who didn't discard cards this way won't draw any cards

Cultivate and Kodamas Reach are excellent here, too, as they replace themselves in hand with a Forest when you play them

Put it together and the value splits cleanly: collectors get the reprints, players get a working recursion shell out of the box