This is actually an incredibly clever card design
Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a +1/+1 counter
This shows that there has always been variation depending on the set
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Its busted if you have better death triggers and ETBs and if youre doubling them with Teysa Karlov
At that time, pulling one of the five parts was already quite challenging and managing to put together the full set was not an easy feat resulting in Exodia to be one of the rarest Yu-Gi-Oh cards with the full set selling for five-digits amounts
