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Should I earthbend the same land to make it stronger, or spread the counters around to widen my ranks

We'll start with Black

The obvious play is casting it during your opponent's combat to survive a lethal combat threat and blank the rest of their turn, but you can also cast it during your own combat to blank an overloaded Cyclonic Rift and exile it off the stack

[RRRR] Explosive Vortex (330) Discard 3 Energy from this Pokemon

"Wizards of the Coast did a great job capturing this in the card with the Standoff ability, which represents his swordsmanship, while Ghost highlights his stealth and ability to strike fear into his opponents

If this discard is viewed as a non-cost, Compulsive Research and Thirst for Knowledge come in at a cool, efficient 1.5 mana per card, which is below our 2-mana-per-card threshold