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Will definitely be back for more

Eventually of course all this madness had to be stopped, so when the Extended format was created they made sure to put this on the banned list

Decks that want to tap out every turn and run lots of sorcery-speed creatures wont typically want many counterspells, since keeping mana up during their opponents turn interferes with their game plan

A 2/4 creature that can spread so many +1/+1 counters around is fine in my book

Freya, Gogo and Gau - I put these together since theyre speculative on being useful for decks that care about what they care about

Mike Long Rootwater Thief (Nemesis) Rootwater Thief is almost close to a playable card, but just slightly misses the mark in so many ways