The generated tokens do a decent job protecting this card, the downtick is acceptable protection, and both fuel an ultimate that can easily win the game
Replacement effects can't go back in time. Second, a replaced event (Event A, what would have happened) never actually takes place
But unfortunately, that is just not the kind of logic that applies to this storied, polarizing aura
Enchantment Kambal, Profiteering Mayor Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it
Multiple cards from this deck had to be banned out of Standard because they made it almost impossible to play anything else, and it still sees play in some more powerful formats
Affinity Affinity for artifacts is the first known use of it, and Final Fantasy brings it back for a total of three cards