pokemon card mega venusaur - M Venusaur-EX (2/83) - Generations showcasing its Mega Evolution form. Pokemon TCG: Mega Venusaur ex

It basically has two options: It is either a bad removal spell or a bad Aura for enhancing one of your creatures

In these scenarios, games arent decided on whose win condition is the best so much as who pulls off their win condition first

In the mid game, you balance continuing to answer their threats with increasing your mana

Equip variants or equip abilities with restrictions, like the "equip Citizen" ability of Ceremonial Groundbreaker from the Streets of New Capenna set, are still equip abilities, and their costs will be reduced by Strong Back's second ability

What bumps up this cards value even more is the autograph, which is from Ishihara himself