Even if you cast it for X=0, youre sweeping away an opponents cheerios and artifact/enchantment tokens
Barrier allows the player to discard one energy in order to block all damage and effects done by their opponent's next attack
9 Beyond The Horizon 202/204 EN.8, Steel Ink "Beyond the Horizon" is a Song card for Steel decks, which is costly but extremely useful for cutting down opponents' hands
Once you have max speed, making a horde of zombies gives you a lot of power, either literally to threaten your opponents or by effectively doubling your stock of sacrifice fodder to make your sacrifice outlets all the stronger
And of course, just like Call of the Herd, this is a great card to dump in the graveyard with whatever graveyard engine you're running so you can cast it later in the game for some free value
You can continue activating 6-cost Sabo s effect on future turns, benefiting from the cost increase to make it harder for opponents to remove him and to keep attaching a rested Don for stronger attacks
