Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, that player loses 1 life
I want to play it in Casual Modern, where there are many cards that put counters on creatures, and then use those counters as card draw
Ken Is a Sneakily Powerful Value Workhorse Ken is powerful and surprisingly sneaky
But more importantly, two, there are differences in card backs from one print run to another
Where Its Easy Wilderness Reclamation Decks (Bant/Temur) Esper Control Rakdos Aggro Azorius Aggro Gates decks (Nexus/Colossus) Izzet Drakes This version of Esper Control is fine-tuned to defeat slow decks that drag games, as well as lightning-fast aggro decks that depend on creatures to win
Obviously, this card synergizes well with both Future Booster Energy Capsules ability to reduce retreat costs to nothing as well as cards that switch both active Pokemon such as Switch Cart or the ACE SPEC card Prime Catcher