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Eriettes Lullaby is a removal spell that does not go into every deck, so I was a little bit hesitant to include it in the top 5, but the gain 2 life did push it over the line for me

Many of the cards that require energy to activate abilities also produce energy when you play them , albeit less than you're likely to need

Savanti Romero, Time's Exile Black only dabbles in +1/+1 counters, but Savanti Romero, Time's Exile makes a firm argument for why you should care about them

Assuming you put the ETB ability on the stack, then the LTB ability, the LTB ability will resolve first

(2024-07-26) If the spell is countered, the offspring ability will not trigger, and no token will be created