Despite the effect of transforming Battle being a triggered ability , its controller exiles the permanent and then casts it without paying the mana cost , opening up space to interact with Battle on the stack with Make Disappear, or other counterspells, or even to bounce them on the stack, with Venser, Shaper Savant and the like
Understanding these factors helps determine the worth of energy cards
The key to success is low investment : Lickitung is an obviously terrible card, but throwing out a Misty or putting an Energy on an Eevee youre building up to evolve anyway is a small cost with high potential reward
Because you get to choose two modes, its hard to go wrong with this spell
Lists like this tend to have better opening hands since you have fewer zero-and one-land hands that youre forced to mulligan and tend to have more action and fewer cards like Galvanic Blast that you arent always happy to see in your opener
Equip only as a sorcery.) Artifact - Equipment Thran Power Suit Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it and has ward