The cards combination of artistic beauty, character popularity, and limited availability contributes to its strong position among the most valuable and desirable cards in the Evolving Skies set
I try to make sure I end up with 4-6 lands, 4-5 card draw spells, and as much removal as I can get my hands on (which does make it a higher pick usually)
If you counter the first triggered ability or otherwise remove it from the stack, it will just trigger again immediately if Nine Lives still has nine or more incarnation counters on it
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Since then, however, players have fixed a lot of the decks problems
They have similar restrictions to Pillar of Origins that make them less effective in gameplay than they might seem, but they're still great fixing for multicolor decks