charizard pokemon card psa 8 Graded: ex 54/91 Paldean Fates (2024) Holo 2016 Pokemon Xy Evolutions 12

If there's a cost associated with having that creature attack, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.

And when you give a card a bunch of effects that are normally situational, that can be especially powerful because when those scenarios come up, you get insane value

These combos can be performed very fast and, more problematically, Lumra can easily go for another win after a foiled attempt

He top decks a Snuff Out, removes the untapped elephant and I die the next turn

Redundancy and quick diminishing returns hurt the value of those groups of cards

For just three mana, you can give each opponent a poison counter, starting a very short clock for an alternate win condition