Blinking, or more commonly flickering, is where you exile a creature only to bring it back immediately or at the end of the turn
Sometimes, stealing something takes it away from a player who might otherwise flicker, clone or sacrifice it
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2020-11-10 Opponents who have left the game aren't counted when determining how many tokens to create
Despite that, a hard creature destruction spell for just two mana is going to be played for quite some time
Side note: the other Carbink out in this set has a specific yet still useful Ability called Energy Keeper that makes your Basics immune to commonly used cards like Crushing Hammer (or uncommonly used cards like Crawdaunt), so its worth considering running 2 Safeguard/1 Energy Keeper just in case you go up against an Energy-eliminating deck