This card can be useful defensively as it doesn't cost a resource per se
He also earns 2 Lore whenever you banish another character with him during a Challenge on your turn
Gigantoad: A four mana 4/4 is good, and this one grows into a 6/6
The best and least janky is of course Dockside Extortionist to turn your opponents' Blood tokens into an obscene amount of Treasure tokens for yourself (as if Dockside needs help being a good card), but if you want to go deep then you can do ultra janky things like get max value out of Curious Herd, Ancient Runes, maybe don't even let them sac them with Karn, the Great Creator so the tokens keep piling up, or if they do then you get to draw cards off Viridian Revel
High mana value cards like Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise are perfect for Taigam, generating hand advantage immediately and again in a few turns
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