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I looked at running both Merfolk Trickster and Harbinger of Tides as both are decently high power and high tempo dorks

Machop and Machoke are also energy-efficient and have high HP, and pairing Machamp Ex with cards like Ex Marowak makes it an early-game threat

This makes it clear what cards go where and what kinds of cards you can expect people to be playing

Empoleon might seem a lot like Machamp, but Narode asserts that its better for a few key reasons

When it comes into play, you get to pick one of those many, many creature types to be specific for Realmwalker

Mox Sapphire doesn't do anything more than provide a single blue mana, but the fact you could play as many of these artifacts as you wished on the first turn meant it was theoretically possible to have far more mana than your opponent if you received a lucky draw