Your opponent often needs to multiblock to take out massive creatures bolstered by counters, and deathtouch ensures youll kill all of them
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Wizards of the Coast has recently changed its approach to updating the banlist and is creating a more flexible approach to updating it, stating that "Future banned and restricted announcements will occur two to five weeks after each set's release." This does depend on which formatting you are playing though, so it's still worth getting familiar with the banlist update cycles and the latest releases
Credit: Wizards of the Coast Credit: Wizards of the Coast Jill, Shiva's Dominant / Shiva, Warden of Ice BPhillipYork: The payoff here doesn't seem really worth it, returning a nonland permanent is a nice add on, but the 2/2 for 3 isn't great and the flip side is just too expensive for getting unblockable onto a creature
Sometimes the decision is just to wait a little longer, while in other situations, its a straight-up ban on the problematic card(s)
This is very strong in decks that are graveyard literate and Black, like Reanimation around things like Buried Alive and Reanimate, Animate Dead, or others
