dialga pokemon card full art EX - 122/119 - Secret Rare end display Origin Forme Dialga V #177

The cheaper activation, exalted and extra toughness make Pridemage much more powerful and usable than any other creature of this kind

Dead Weight is awesome

All of your lands and mana rocks have also phased out, so you might not be able to cast many spells

Forcing players to hack through a defensive line of characters to get to your best questers is a legitimate strategy to victory - one that steel cards are particularly good at

You also lean into the legendary creatures a lot in order to enable the deck, so having them get +2/+1 and ward 1, on top of the potential Role tokens theyre already going to have access to means theyll survive for longer