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Not to mention that Little John, Resourceful Outlaw needing to be exerted to have his effect take hold is an easy cost to pay, considering how many resistant Bodyguards your opponents will likely have to get through to challenge him.
It certainly sounds cool, but there are so many things you can do for any given character, Verhey said
This was a reason to splash green into your control deck, or splash white if you were pulling a Mike Pistulnik
The disparity in power between the companions in Ikoria and the repetitive, hard to counter play patterns inherent to how they worked left this attempt at experimentation dead in the water
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