Last updated on April 2, 2026 Phenax, God of Deception | Illustration by Ryan Barger Players love an alternate win condition, and one of the most popular alternate win conditions is milling out your opponents
Because Alpha cards were played heavily without sleeves on concrete playgrounds in 1993, finding one in Near Mint condition is statistically improbable
Using an indestructible creature to block a lifelinker will still result in the opponent gaining life, and blocking a creature with wither will still cause -1/-1 counters to be placed on your creature (which could actually kill it!)
Thats a super-cute notion, though, but the kinds of decks that will be playing these emerge creatures are going to have a massive density of heavy-hitting monsters
This should make it so, more often than not, you can just accept the dialog without searching
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