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So his reasoning for opposing them is fairly well-founded

Keep in mind that besides all the huge expensive threats were planning to reanimate, the deck also runs a bunch of two-mana Merfolk Looters and one-mana Mother of Runes-type cards, so this is more likely than you might think

Zapdos ex Special Illustration Rare 202 This card features not only Zapdos, who takes center stage, but the other members of the Legendary Bird trio that remain ever popular to this day

It gets a whole host of trinkets and doodads, and if you have nothing better to do before it pops, you can use it to make Karnstructs, one of the most powerful token creatures