Remember: back in 2015, cards like Force of Negation, Force of Vigor, Assassin's Trophy, Fatal Push, Karn, the Great Creator, Counterspell, and friends didn't exist (or weren't legal in Modern), and decks were much, much slower and fairer, giving Birthing Pod a leg up on the metagame thanks to the consistency it offered
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You take a tempo hit by bouncing an island to your hand, but Legacy Delver decks have been making that trade for years
Behemoth of Vault 0 is a decent one-off energy boost and gives us another way to snipe random permanents, particularly when cloned by Saheeli
It's possibly one of the most interesting decks to ever succeed, considering Gengar and Garchomp C Lv.X (C) don't seem to have a ton of synergy together other than their propensity for sniping Benched Pokmon