one piece card game starter deck 8 TCG: MONKEY D. LUFFY [ST-08] – Zapp! Comics two Super Rare cards One Piece Trading Card Game:

(2012-07-01) If the game is restarted (by Karn Liberated), you can't cast Serra Avenger in your first, second, or third turn in the new game

(2021-09-24) Decayed represents a static ability and a triggered ability

Casting Cost: G

Im already running Storm of Souls as a way to bring back all of my small creatures in my Adeline, Resplendent Cathar deck, so I can see this card slotting in immediately as a secondary way to recover from a devastating board wipe

At three mana and above, there are actually a huge number of zombie lords and other payoffs, but you can only fit a few 3+ mana cards in an aggressive deck so it was simply never viable to start your curve that late

Attack decks had to respect the 20 life it gained in the middle, and control decks had to figure out how to beat the hand destruction and fast Necropotence