combusken pokemon card (35/106) [Diamond & Pearl: Great Encounters] (Dont apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Fire Pokemon TCG - SM7 -

One is a 3/2 menace, and the other is a Black Lotus-plus to cast it

Despite Betors seemingly steep requirements to do its thing, reaching 10 total toughness is a breeze in a deck full of creatures with inflated toughness

In addition, Zagras can be an effective way to remove Planeswalkers given that he has flying and haste, and when he or any other of our creatures deal combat damage to a planeswalker it is immediately destroyed

Most of these cards are within green and blue, the only exceptions being Kiyomaro, First to StandKiyomaro, First to Stand and Kagemaro, First to SufferKagemaro, First to Suffer, which formed part of a cycle in Saviors of Kamigawa

Since then, they've been much more consistent

On paper, it looks like a decent replacement for a counterspell