Now that youve got The Aetherspark attached, you can start ticking up the planeswalker, both through its +1 ability to give a creature a +1/+1 counter, and then dealing damage with an equipped creature also adds loyalty counters to it
Every booster pack pull, starter deck card, and theme deck card uses this exact format
Mai uses Gravity Bind to slow down the battle between her and Marik during the Battle City finals
Furthermore, although it was technically considered an expansion to Ice Age , the snow mechanic was largely ignored in Alliances , and the direction of both sets was even more divergent before a handful of mechanical tie-ins were added during development
There are successful land deck builds across Legacy that dont care about discarding an Arclight Phoenix or a land that can be recovered with Life from the Loam, or even a dredge card
People generally feel, if they had a chance to compete in the game, or to at least break up the combo, it's OK