Not only is it a great creature removal spell that you dont mind firing off early (unlike Path to Exile where the extra land matters), but it covers problematic non-creatures too
Once again, there are multiple ways to approach this
It's almost always better to avoid killing creatures with Dead Weight or Mire's Grasp
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Crib Swap Some kindred spells have the shapeshifter type despite not being creatures, but these still count for the purposes of anything that references a shapeshifter
Dragon Frontiers' Charizard Gold Star was one of the first times it was seen in its iconic black shiny coloring, which alone is usually enough to make a card shoot up in value