the lord of pain mtg card 401 Games Canada - Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn The Lord of Pain Proxy

Use this with Blue Sun's Zenith to deck out opponent, Sphinx's Revelation to draw and gain infinite life or Mirror Entity for creatures that are infinite/infinite!

The same is true for counters that change its power

Pairing this ability with a very good max speed is the icing on the cake for a very interesting Azorius commander revolving around artifacts and crazy amounts of value generated by doubling them

Notably, channel lands such as Otawara, Soaring City can also be used to answer things while youre unable to cast spells

The ability will count any artifact or creature that was put into a graveyard, including tokens

I think youll probably only play this in the artifacts decks, but thats fine