Legality depends on the tournament format -- Tentacle Plant can be legal in some formats and banned or restricted in others
Release date: 2025 Jan 25th
20Scarlet & Violet, Sword & Shield and/or Mega Evolutions
boosts + counter effects Apply Damage or KO Result: Higher power wins - defending character gets KO'd (knocked out) If attacking Leader directly, defender takes Life damage (reveals cards from Life Area) Power and Damage If your attacker has higher or equal power compared to the defender, the defending character is knocked out When attacking a Leader directly, the defending player takes damage by revealing cards from their Life Area If a player runs out of Life cards, they lose the game Using Counter Cards Counter cards are your defensive tools
The one innovation was that, while Innistrad only had DFCs that were a creature on both sides (and one planeswalker on both sides at mythic rare), Dark Ascension had two DFCs that started as artifacts, one of which wasn't even a creature on the back face
Dropping one damage counter on every opposing character can have huge ramifications, especially with so many viable combinations of cards that affect already damaged characters