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The counters become rewards and punishments to try and influence you to use the card in a certain manner

Wizards' new bracket system looks to correct that, cutting the ratings from ten to five and adding concrete criteria to determine where your deck lands, from goofy exhibition decks at one, all the way to cEDH decks at five

Along with the two starter decks, the Costco bundle also comes with four additional Into the Inklands booster packs, combined with the two extra boosters one in each starter deck for a total of 72 additional cards

But if you Cascade into a card that has the option to counter a spell or have a different effect, such as Cryptic Command, then youre not getting screwed out of the advantage that Cascade provides by getting stuck with a card that you can't play (unless you want to counter your own spell)