The Pikachu Illustrator card dates from a reader competition run in Japanese magazine CoroCoro Comic from 1997 to 1998
The calculator evaluates synergy across 14 strategic axes: Sacrifice sacrifice outlets + death trigger payoffs +1/+1 Counters counter sources + counter synergies (proliferate, doubling) Tokens token generators + creature count payoffs (convoke, Craterhoof effects) Landfall extra land plays/fetches + landfall triggers ETB/Blink flicker effects + enter-the-battlefield triggers Graveyard mill/discard/self-mill + graveyard recursion Creature Cheat reanimation/cheat effects + expensive creatures to cheat out Spellslinger instants/sorceries + cast-trigger payoffs Artifacts artifact density + artifact synergies (affinity, metalcraft) Enchantress enchantment density + enchantment triggers (constellation) Voltron equipment/aura count + equipped/enchanted creature payoffs Stax tax/denial pieces + asymmetric cost reduction Lifegain life gain sources + life gain triggers Wheels wheel effects + discard/draw triggers For each axis, the calculator counts enablers (the cards that set up the strategy) and payoffs (the cards that benefit from the strategy)
Etali, Primal Storm It feels like WotC reprints Etali, Primal Storm every year, and for good reason
The average Commander deck will prioritize Eternal Witness and ways to recycle its ability before they ever even consider Den Protetor as a back-up, but morph decks can use it as a synergy piece and likely have ways to reuse its morph ability to pick up extra cards
Spoiler : if you have read any of my other blogs they all cut one
Ramiro Galindo [US] (8/5/1), Charizard ex/Pidgeot ex 267
