Being an instant, it also lets you set up key cards right before beginning your turn, including ramp like Sol Ring, shenanigans with Vedalken Orrery, or the ability to attack or tap with an artifact creature on your turn that would normally have to wait through a full turn cycle of summoning sickness
In other words, even if you use two or more counters in one creature, three are not four, but three
All in all, five mana for something that doesnt do anything on its own is expensive, especially considering you need both creatures and draw effects to make this work, but the payoff is definitely worth it for a focused strategy
While all of the pieces to the puzzle have yet to be spoiled, we can start formulating the foundation of the Eldrazi ramp deck and start evaluating the cards available to us that come from Khans of Tarkir block and Magic Origins as well as those weve seen so far from Battle for Zendikar
Some of the rarest cards throughout the Lorcana TCG are promo cards that have a very limited print, but also some of the most common or also promo cards, so it all depends on print quantity