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Hurska is really best when you're already ahead because the need to gain a chunk of life before you use the pump effect is difficult to balance

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Modular Cockatrice lets you choose which one you want when you Battlegrowth it, and whether you want both abilities when you do that again

Its another good reason why +1/+1 counter and proliferate are considered separate deck archetypes

As such it is only when you need specific things for your deck to function, either you are light on answers or are revolving around some sort of engine or synergy that you become happier paying two mana in your turn to get a card you want