Its a classic inclusion in any red-white deck and can single-handedly save your entire board from a wrath effect when needed
Pauper decks use spells like Mental Note and Squadron Hawk to replicate this
Pretty straightforward and easy to understand, even if youre a brand new player
A full 21 of our 28 changes weighed in under two dollars, so I really did try to honor the principle of your budget if not its exact number putting a few resources to work towards fixing it up will get you a whole host of cards to improve it with rather than just a high-powered card or two, and you dont need to sink a chunk of cash into seven real fetchlands and some duals to get with them in order to have a perfectly-fine The Gitrog Monster deck
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Cards with split second, like Extirpate, can be countered, but are hard to counter since spells can't be cast once it has been cast until it resolves