mtg cards like duress Magic the Gathering Dragons of Tarkir Single Card Common 98 nonland card from it What is so bad about

I don't believe it saw much, if any, Constructed play at the time (I may be wrong on this, but can't seem to find anything from researching online), but the card was considered quite powerful stat-wise and featured some keywords not commonly found on Green cards

Its cheap to cast, gives you a huge mana advantage, and its impact on the early game is greater than almost any other card in the game

Protecting the battlefield with various counter spells and board wipes, UW Control seeks to unleash a single good threat, nearly always Dream Trawler and then keep anything from dealing with it while it does its work

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You can pay X mana into the otherwise two-mana ability to give a creature +X/+0 for the turn, with X equal to how much you pump into the activation cost