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This combined effect of speeding up your own progression while simultaneously slowing down your opponents allows you to leap ahead of your opponent and consistently keep your board one step ahead of theirs

The main way to lose initiative is to take combat damage from an opposing creature, which in turn grants the initiative to the attacking player

While often not seeing play in red deck wins the deck is more than happy to see this kind of effect coming from their opponents

As we get into Rare and Super Rare the ink cost can be up to 8, with a larger amount of cards having two or three effects

The bigger a format's card pool, the less impact new cards will have (on average) since only a few are strong enough to matter, thus partially shielding these formats from the Too Many Cards problem

They even stuck a picture of Magic 's most famous Dragon on it