It's probably the least angry-looking of all the hats, which suits Pikachu's personality better
In many matchups the proper card to name is obvious most of the time but against decks with no one key card the answer can be counterintuitive even if you can't get a read on your opponent
In your developing turns, the flash on it offers you an amazing level of flexibility, letting you waste your opponents mana by not letting them use removal on your turn, catching your opponent off-guard sometimes (especially if they dont realise youre on Mono-Blue), and letting you hold up countermagic whilst still threatening to develop your battlefield if you dont need to counter something
It makes the cut here where Sword of Feast and Famine doesnt and thats because the latter sword attracts way too much attention for your cheap and evasive Commander
As such, today we are going to take a few minutes to look back over the history of bans in Standard and try to get a sense of just what it takes for Wizards to bite the bullet and actually ban one or more cards in the format
(2022-12-02) Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when Pirated Copy enters the battlefield
