Japanese 1st Edition cards operate in their own separate market
Blue can grab good hexproof creatures (Geist of Saint Traft says hello), black good deathtouch creatures ("Rawr," goes the Grave Titan), and everyone loves trample (Akroma the First, Boartusk Liege, Bringer of the Blue Dawn, Gleancrawler, Phantom Nishoba, and Simic Sky Swallower come to mind)
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While these decks did lose an incredibly important stadium during the rotation, the strategies made up for this lack of Energy Acceleration with Flareon ex, a card which has become the main focus of the most powerful Eeveelution variant in the current format
This saga is about as dinosaur-centric as it gets, but you dont even have to be all in on dinos to make it worth transforming Huatli