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The spell won't be countered when Essence Capture resolves, but you'll still put a +1/+1 counter on the target creature

The core of the deck is to play anything and everything that lets you scry cards, manipulating the top of your deck to almost always put a land on top, so you can ramp up faster and faster

RDW certainly can go into auto-pilot mode however most of the time it forces lots of very difficult choices

However, the card is simply a solid two-drop for any deck that has ways to gain life

It didn't advance the current story but allowed us to fill in a lot of information to make the audience more aware of who Nicol Bolas is and what he's done in the past