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It'll be death to a deck like Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Going wide skirts around this problem, overwhelming your opponents with sheer numbers of small creatures and tokens
The Shift ability enables players to place this card onto an already played Gaston card for a reduced price, putting any existing tokens onto it
But the reality is that Iono served multiple purposes during a game, helping preserve resources in the early game and punishing your opponent in the late turns, all at once
That said, it's hard to draw the line between what is meant to be parody and what is meant to be deconstruction, as the series' overall tone is a Cerebus Rollercoaster between serious drama and light-hearted comedy, and it is inconsistent on when it is clearly parodying tropes, deconstructing them, or playing them straight