Croaking Counterpart + Cackling Counterpart Croaking Counterpart and Cackling Counterpart are similarly strong card advantage sources since you get two copies or extra value when discarding or self-milling
This is strictly better than nearly every other board wipe, and its going to be absolutely everywhere
is as pricey as the golden crabs unusual shell, costing a whopping eight ink to get onto the field
(9/15/2013) If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves
It's even funnier to engineer their downfall, and Monoblack, Dimir, and Esper decks can find a lot of fun ways to do that with this card
But theres no obvious requirement for these to come in the form of lock cards