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Depending on when you play this card, you can make a tiny critter a five-damage swing, or you can keep Dreadful as the Storm in your hand until blockers are declared as a neat combat trick

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With that set in place, building your deck around the current EX cards and matching their type with a basic evolution tree will massively increase your damage output and expedite card setup

The bottleneck in this plan becomes your mana, making this a narrow but reliable payoff card for massive mana combos

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I have legitimately not seen Gates in a hot minute in the format, so it is really cool to see it show up in a Premier event here