In the Battle City episode, Yugi used this card to control Pandora 's magic clown, which had been prepared as a sacrifice for the Black Magician in a duel with Pandora , and summoned the Black Magician first, and the moment the revival slime was played during the duel with the silent doll , this card After being brainwashed and moved to his own field, he used Marik's tactics against him and won with an infinite loop solution
It does cost five mana to cast, but high-mana creatures aren't an issue for Mono-Black, especially one that helps you with a bit of a comeback factor in terms of life
Quick rules bit: with Trample, you still have to assign lethal damage before assigning to the player
#26 Lemme break character for a sec but i love how off topic we are
One of the heuristics I tend to use when building a deck with blue is to count a Counterspell as somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0 instances of a category like protection
Beginning of combat Declare attackers Declare blockers Assign combat damage (additional combat step for double strike and first strike creatures) Assign combat damage End of combat A card with double strike will assign combat damage in the first combat damage step