In formats like Standard and Pioneer, decks built around cards like Ajani's Pridemate (or its more powerful variants) are usually competitive
Her activated ability even removes flavor text so then she can be blocked, which is that odd tension I was talking about, but lets be real: thats a fine tradeoff, given thats shes probably stealing some pretty sweet abilities
Planeshift Tahngarth When Michael and I were first writing down ideas for crew members, we wrote "a Hurloon Minotaur" because Hurloon Minotaur had become the de facto Wizards of the Coast mascot
It can proliferate Lulu, Stern Guardian's stun counters, Fathom Mage's +1/+1 counters, and Protection Magic's shield counters, for instance
But this card drawing machine loves it
The second ability lets you immediately exert any character you play that costs 2 or less ink