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Balor deals damage to target opponent equal to the number of cards in their hand

Some of that is just good fortune in how all these effects are worded, but Id say its more that discarding is an inherently effective way to interface with Magic s core mechanics

Enchantment - Case In Too Deep Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Enchant creature, planeswalker, or Clue Enchanted permanent is a colorless Clue artifact with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card" and loses all other abilities

Terapagos ex It's rare that the mascot Pokemon of a Pokemon TCG set is also its strongest card, but that looks to be the case with Terapagos ex

Then there's Blastoise ex, a straight-up powerhouse with damage negation and a scalable attack that only gets better the more Energy you dump into it