It actively encourages you to run every color of Ally, as you get a big stat boost with General Tazri's effect
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Every time one of your creatures dies, you gain a counter that never goes away, and during your end step, Meren brings a creature back from the graveyard to your hand or directly to the battlefield if your counter count is high enough
However, the card can be stacked on top of other Rafikis to bring that cost down, and the versions currently in the game are all Amethyst to make that a little easier to pull off
Okay, this saw some play, but it wasnt like knights was a huge deck, so 3/10 This was great in the Red Black Cauldron Familiar deck as a removal spell of sorts, but most of the Mono-Red decks arent playing any of these, even in their sideboard
A decade ago, From The Vault: Twenty was a Magic product with a similar goal, and while cards like Jace, The Mind Sculptor and Green Sun's Zenith feel deeply entrenched in the game, they were relatively new at the time
