If there's one downside to this card, it's that both its other abilities are focused on Towns , a new type of land that is only in the Final Fantasy set so far
There's a bunch, but the most common and straightforward ones are simply cards with converted mana costs 6 or higher
Seeing the writing on the wall, I was able to counter that threat, but he followed it up with a 4/4 Goldspan Dragon and swung everything at me to kill me
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, and both Obstinate Baloth's ability and another ability (such as that of an opponent's Leyline of the Void) instruct you to put Obstinate Baloth somewhere else instead of putting it into your graveyard, you choose which one to apply
Later, once we established that the Knight deck would be about Equipment, this card became key for that deck as well