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While it is symmetrical, if youve built your deck around going off with Aluren, it doesnt really matter

Sazh Katzroy Esper Origins This is worth the splash only if you can reliably discard it (i.e

Endurance is the most castable card of the cycle, which is nice if your opponent stumbles a bit, or you have another piece of interaction, you can easily cast Endurance to save yourself a card

When you do, this creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control, except it has this ability and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you get that many ." At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay

It is one of the few monsters that excels both as an agro tempo dork and as a defensive early stalling dork

Your win conditions are likely to be either swinging at your opponents with buff Merfolk until their life total hits zero, or you can try to sneakily win using Simic Ascendency , which wins you the game once it hits 20 counters