Eight mana might seem like a lot to pump all your creatures, but a card that gives you both a burst of mana and ways to utilize that mana is, frankly, amazing
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What makes Crux of Fate so good is its relatively cheap cost to cast
(2021-11-19) If creatures enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters or a continuous effect such as that of Wedding Festivity will apply to the creatures on the battlefield, those effects apply when checking to see if Welcoming Vampire's ability will trigger
You can point Counterspell at them as normal
I have been trying to cut as many of such cards as possible from my cube with Ankh of Mishra being long gone and cards like Armageddon on my watch list