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The whole deck is basically built around these strategies with several ways to amass orcs, tons of support for spellslinging, and support for reanimation, either as big creatures to reanimate, discard to send them to the graveyard, or actual ways to reanimate them

We realized that every time we had ever put it in a non-core expansion, we had changed the card in some way, and it seemed only right to finally let Giant Spider visit a new plane

This card is absurdly good, immediately replenishing your hand after you spent your early turns depleting it by vomiting out mana rocks, and then you have a free counterspell engine chucking those excess mana rocks at people's spells

To all our players who have been looking forward to this expansion, and to the talented illustrators who bring the Pokmon world to life, we deeply apologise for any inconvenience this has caused

It was banned from the competitive scene in September 2020 for dominating tournament decks, along with online matches in Magic Arena