If youre going to pay that much to draw cards, youd better actually draw the cards
If done right, its a cool mechanic, especially in Limited formats where you cant put 24+ artifact cards in your deck at will, or when it works with a more balanced permanent, like affinity for tokens, or for artifact creatures
This is combined with gameplay that puts long combo chains and reaction-based activation at its heart, making it difficult for newcomers to understand exactly what should happen when - or how they went from their full 8000 life points to zero in the space of a single turn
This chaotic deck features some formidable creatures mostly split into the powerful Astartes super soldiers and vicious demons
As the number of VMAX cards has increased, more powerful pocket monsters have been granted one of these game-changing forms
It can be taken advantage of with Osgir, for starters, and its just a generally sweet way to accrue value for later turns