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It certainly creates undesirable game states because of its effect-to-mana-cost ratio

#21 The issue is that a lot of control decks want to run sweepers as part of their many for one strategies, and you don't ideally want to be running out 2/1, 1/3, 0/4, or 0/5 bodies that don't net a card turns 2-3 when you are hoping to wipe the board in some capacity turns 4-6

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Rattlechains Its hard to rank typal enablers, but Rattlechains is an absolutely key card in spirits decks, protecting and then enabling flash for 2 mana

Stormtide Leviathan turns all lands (including other players lands) into Islands

Nearly every tribal deck has some number of creatures that provide value when they enter the battlefield