Plus, if youre playing something like Deaths Shadow you probably want to be losing life anyway, which makes this card even better
Commander pre-cons are a much better value toward building a playable collection, and even if they want to buy booster packs, Set Boosters and Collector Boosters contain a lot of cards that arent legal in Standard, such that even if a player were trying to play Standard by buying packs of the appropriate set, they still couldnt just build a deck out of cards they own and know that they could bring it to a Standard tournament, they have to know exactly what to look for to figure out which cards are legal
Ninja Blade is a useful Attack, but it has a one-turn cooldown
Even in a 40 life format (*cough* Commander *cough*), Athreos tends to be a great long-game clock that also nets you good stuff here and there, at least in the early game
It remains to be seen if this changes, but for the time being, heres every type of rarity that can be traded in Pocket: One-Diamond Cards Two-Diamond Cards Three-Diamond Cards Four-Diamond Cards One-Star Cards Same Cards If you want to Trade a Three-Diamond Card, the Card your Friend Trades also needs to be a Three-Diamond Card, and so on