first edition onix pokemon card Fighting Colorless Screech Until the end of your next turn 1999 Nintendo Pokemon Game Onix

On its face, its just a big flying threat, but morphing it into play and flipping it up when your opponent least expects it lets you tutor up whatever dragon you need

Force of Vigor gets around any mana costs by letting you exile a green card from your hand instead of paying for its mana cost, much like the original Force of Will counterspell from Alliances

Many of the decks we play on Budget Magic are close enough to $12 on Magic Online that you can switch up a couple of cards and get them for free

In decks that utilize unblockable creatures (or anything that deploys cards like Rogues Passage or Assassins Regalia), Shredders Technique could be considered an auto-add due to its ability to remove pesky value engines for a single black mana

Others focused entirely on countering it, but, either way, Zoroark came to dictate the game