Most people tend to think of these in three basic ways: the lands you can control (and in turn the mana you can generate), cards in your library, and cards in your hand
The deck is also structured to make use of Rare Candy to make Litten evolve directly to Incineroar ex, but it is also flexible if luck is not on your side and you need to go through Torracat first
So when The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023) finally rolled around, Wizards decided it was time for a mechanical cleanup using Finality Counters, a bold, elegant solution that turned that "you're dead for real this time" clause into something a bit more physical
Do I ever want to be casting literally counterspell
The downside is that the deck can feel a little split in terms of what you want to achieve
As long as you kill your opponent fast enough, it wont matter if they get a couple of extra lands