Afflict is a triggered ability expressed as Afflict N, where N is an amount of life the opponent will lose when that creature becomes blocked
With SOS focusing heavily on high-mana instants and sorceries, the demand for this card is only going to increase as people brew around the new Prismari legendary creatures
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All of these deals are well worth a good look, and you very well could pull something crazy like a Umbreon ex SIR from Prismatic Evolutions or Vicitini Black White Rare from White Flare
While Sinistcha ex does have to evolve once, this is often not difficult, and its efficient attacks allow it to be versatile throughout the game and take advantage of energy cards in the discard pile throughout the game
And while youre pretty much never going to outright win the game with this, even with double strike, you can take pretty big chunks off your opponents life which is even more important in a format where life starts at 40