Power Plays If you can get Powerline Taking the Stage out early, youve got lots of great options
For example, if a Lakeside Shack and a Breeding Pool you control are entering at the same time (perhaps because of the effect of a spell like Scapeshift), your life total is 14, and your opponent's life total is 20, the Lakeside Shack will enter tapped whether or not you choose to pay life as Breeding Pool enters
That countdown is represented by us moving through a dungeon card, with the reanimation going on the stack at the same time as the final room ability
Because choosing a half of the alphabet is an additional cost, players will know which creatures are fated to be destroyed while pondering responses
I remember I was 7 when they launched here in the UK, I still remember opening my first Base Set booster pack, I even recall that it was a Blastoise art pack and I pulled a holo Poliwrath, from that moment I was totally hooked and so excited to find and collect all of the cards, not just to own them, but to see the artwork, that sense of discovery was incredibly rewarding
As another top-down design, it works really well delving into the past