While it is better to pay the one mana most of the time, sometimes you just can't if you want to make any kind of progress on your board state
When a card says Gift a tapped Fish, it means that you may choose an opponent, and if you do, that player creates a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token once the spell resolves
Introduction to AnnihilationIntroduction to Annihilation (16.5K Inclusions, 0.23% of 7.27M Decks) In comparison to Reduce to MemoryReduce to Memory, Introduction to AnnihilationIntroduction to Annihilation doesn't seem like it's going to win any awards
While the card has found a home in Standard in some midrange builds, the bigger deal is that it's seeing Pioneer play in Waste Not and even Rakdos Midrange thanks to its ability to grind out value by 3-for-1'ing the opponent with its enters the battlefield trigger
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But we have yet see just how fast the Limited format is, how deep white is, how friendly the format is to greed, and how unstoppable its bombs are