Just like their video game counterparts, Steel Pokemon are toughand of course, theyve got their own shiny Energy card to match
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If you just touched up the land base and added in some more of the recursion, you'd have a fine deck in its own right, but it wouldn't be an upgrade article without a few suggestions
There are cards which produce multiple threats at once or provide a threat on the back of a single card gain or single target removal
(If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control