With the alternate cost of one of each mana to cheat out, this 5/5 trampling beater can get you a dominant force at the kitchen table
This design is simple and objective, but generates a cumulative punishment for the opponent if they fail to establish a good board position, while becoming irrelevant in front of an empty battlefield, where it turns into a Cruel Edict with a bonus or threat
Those lists typically already go pretty wide with cheap, 2- to 3-cost creatures, and this would be a great top-end that solidifies your board and has a lot of potential to come out early
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Also last week: Chris Botelho piloted his Grixis Pact deck to a fifth-place finish at Grand Prix Portland
Note this is entirely pointless because there is nothing that Starmie can do with the fourth water energy card