There are board wipes and single-target removal spells aplenty, there are Fog effects, and there are solitaire-style combo wins all make combat much more difficult to pull off
However, a d20 easily solves this, as does the Lorcana app (which was not live at the time of review)
So that makes this strong as a leader of a Mono-Black Aggro or Tokens deck that are swinging all out
I needed card draw bad, so I added every feasible one to my land base, save for Bonders' Enclave, like Arch of Orazca
Semesters End throws in its oar as the latest in a line of reactive white protection spells that seek to gain other forms of advantage
Here they are ranked by cost, the #1 being the cheapest as of July 2026