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That counter-age

Mono red decks will have a hard time setting up for this combo, as they dont have reliable ways to find the pieces, but if you add blue or black, tutors like Trinket Mage and Vampiric Tutor can help you assemble the pieces without slowing you down, ensuring you are able to keep up with early mana rocks and ramp spells with ease

It is a necessity of a paper card game

Meanwhile, Izzet Charm can still counter that planeswalker (admittedly in a much less efficient way since it costs twice as much as Spell Pierce does), but it can also kill the Dark Confidant and, when the other modes are dead, potentially improve your hand by looting away some extra lands, Faithless Lootingstyle

Putting a +1/+1 counter on something might seem dirt obvious now but the idea of expanding the roles of a +1/+1 counter beyond being an expression of a creature's size was a significant leap forward back in the day