This is the kind of card that opens up new deck possibilities, like , or mono black control, and at least in EDH can be a budget substitute for cards like Damnation
While increases in mana cost are associated with worse win rates for common and uncommon cards, for rare and mythic rare cards, a mana cost one higher increases the expected win rate when seen by 0.65% and 0.55%, respectively, with an approximate error of \(\pm\) 0.3%.
I can, however, talk up their power in Magic
Considering Charizard exs Crimson Storm requires four Energy and discards two Energy upon use, we want to use Moltres ex to stack as many Energy on Charizard ex as possible before retreating it
Mono-blue cards were the only cards considered