Cascading into a reactive spell, like CounterspellCounterspell, is just bad and so is Cascading into a dead removal spell
The first time I properly met Simon was at Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch, where his team, Team Eureka, broke this deck out into the world after previously only being seen as a fringe deck on Magic Online (funnily enough, the CEO of ThreeForOne, Oliver Polak-Rottman, was also part of Team Eureka!)
The couple that are base green and want some ramp value the green ramp effects not dissimilar to The Rock or traditional Green Ramp decks
Now let's say your foe cycled a Triome
Luffy has become the dominant leader in the current meta, posting a 52.9% win rate across 19,000+ tracked games
Black has always had its share of powerful cards throughout MTGs history, be it powerful Alpha cards like Dark Ritual and Demonic Tutor or more recent cards like Grief and Archon of Cruelty