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If you want something a little less explosive, however, Stinging Study can work wonders in the right deck

Your engine piece will eat a disenchant

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead

That doesnt change the fact that the card is pretty good, though

Ace Character card that was currently priced at around $40 and here it is

Mark Rosewater placed Birds as a one on the Beeble Scale (will definitely see again, most likely in the next set), explicitly acknowledging their ubiquity