This card does not let you do anything else other than the one ability written above
The deck also runs several pieces of spot removal and sacrifice abilities
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Simic Ascendancy I consider this to be a strong modern-day version of Helix Pinnacle or Darksteel Reactor, as it's fun, and you only need 20 growth counters, plus it puts counters on dorks which will growth itself
If creatures aren't dying in large enough quantities to make this appealing, you can just cast it to draw a new card
Her activated ability even removes flavor text so then she can be blocked, which is that odd tension I was talking about, but lets be real: thats a fine tradeoff, given thats shes probably stealing some pretty sweet abilities