1995 charmander pokemon card | Games | St Edition Rare Original 1995 Charmander Pokemon

In these metas, Counterspell would be a much better choice

If either target is illegal when Essence Capture tries to resolve, the other is still affected as appropriate

Frustratingly, since all the backgrounds are monocolored, you won't be able to play all these cards in the same deck, unless we get that rules change for hybrid mana

In short, this is a huge card for any commander deck that cares about token creatures and the supply will be really short post-release

Black Lotus Were getting out of the personal and nearly impossible to find cards and into the commercial and very hard to find cards

Designs go much wider than this, though, and there are sometimes other ways to turn them into creatures