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Long a staple in Panharmonicon builds, the ability to double-filter when it enters the battlefield and eventually draw eight cards (and discard four) with eternalize is incredibly powerful

Creature - Warrior Dog Angelic Sell-Sword Flying, vigilance Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control enters, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with ": Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn

This deck doesn't have Pokemon V, so the damage is the only thing that matters here

Siding it in against other fair midrange decks just to try and catch a Snapcaster Mage flashing back Brainstorm or Swords to Plowshares is rarely worth the card slot

This costs 1 Metal and 2 Colorless energy to use and deals 100 damage

Eventually we win the game by pumping our team with cards like Shared Animosity and taking extra combats with Combat Celebrant to deal lethal combat damage