We went and got powerful reprints
While most powerful cards aim to control or overwhelm the board, Exodia bypasses the game state entirely , rewarding draw consistency and protection instead
X s power is that most decks in the current (DP-AR) metagame are built toward speed, or you have Salamence (Which Resists you) and Flygon (Which oneshots you)
Here's a quick preview of the prepped binder before we start the fun part of the Pokdex Challenge -- trying to catch 'em all by collecting one card of each Pokmon (any variant)
Its less efficient than Gaeas Cradle because it costs mana to activate the second ability and youre locked into a single creature type, but it can produce mana of any color and even makes colorless on an empty board
While The Brothers' War meld cards still run the risk of having a part of the meld pair removed in response to the meld effect, most of the cards doing something pretty much as soon as they meld is a big improvement on the original cards