Manifest dread adds an element of choice: The manifesting player gets to choose from two cards off the top of their library, one card becomes the face down 2/2, and the other card goes into your graveyard
This allows you to put damage counters on any Pokemon with an Ability once per turn, which can help support Moves that get stronger if they are done on Pokemon that have already taken damage
Other interested parties have also made bids along the way, but none yet tops Rubios
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Dancer's Chakrams and Glider Staff are two quick examples of equipment in white's long history of equipment that are great ways to spend extra, mana, especially in the post combat main phase, say after you've attacked with the equipped creature and want to move it to a blocker
You may choose a different target for each instance of the word target on the resulting spell