In the Pokemon card world, "trading" can mean a few different things: Direct card-for-card trades : The classic
(This is the same reason I've stopped playing Phyrexian Arena in Standardit's just too risky with Sheoldred being so heavily played.) In Modern, the card could be a Seismic Assault replacement and does have the huge, huge upside of only requiring one red mana (although it does cost one more mana overall), but is it going to be fast enough
For the low cost of 1500 Life Points, Solemn Strike can negate either the special summon of a Monster, or a Monster's effect activation and destroy it
Each player loses a life during their upkeepweve seen effects like this before as well, usually in red
Xenagod combines with the Gruul dragon to kill in one hit, the Dimir dragon eats Elspeth alive and massacres the increasingly-powerful token theme, and the Rakdos dragon plays well with Frontier Siege and token strategies
Lesson spells are generally high-cost sorceries that normally wouldnt be playable
