it's all about +1/+1 counters, big creatures and mana ramp
Enchantment Kambal, Profiteering Mayor Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it
The generated tokens do a decent job protecting this card, the downtick is acceptable protection, and both fuel an ultimate that can easily win the game
Replacement effects can't go back in time. Second, a replaced event (Event A, what would have happened) never actually takes place
But unfortunately, that is just not the kind of logic that applies to this storied, polarizing aura
Affinity Affinity for artifacts is the first known use of it, and Final Fantasy brings it back for a total of three cards