Cards like Lightning Bolt can turn the tide when they take out a blocker or finish a race
Supreme King Gate Infinity X DARK Level 7 [ Fiend / PendulumEffect ] ATK 0 DEF 0 P Scale 13 If you control a monster, you cannot Pendulum Summon
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf, Friend of the Shire as your Ring-bearer, draw a card
All said, I'm happy with it as a combat-centric mechanic that rewards some novel play
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Now you might be excited to immediately activate that lands ability to make thirty mana, but hold on: that continuous copy effect applying in Layer 1 from Blade of Shared Souls means its still an Incubator token, even though its transformed