Most decks with counters themes have white in there somewhere, whether thats a card with a black pip that gets partnered with Alharu, Solemn Ritualist, a Selesnya leader like Torens, Fist of the Angels, or even dark horse Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
In part because making three extra mana for free in any deck is incredibly broken
Let's explore the situations where players might decide to end their turn and break down the strategic considerations involved
The flexibility on this card is just too strong for it not to be an important two-drop in Red decks
Ruin-Lurker Bat is a one-drop that would have made starter period me lose it, its so efficient and so powerful and its doing so much for just one mana, and back in the day that was considered so powerful and so dangerous because we were all working on bad math as to how long attacking twenty times took
Its a fairly ambitious but strangely potent strategy