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Arcee, Sharpshooter is a 2/2 creature with first strike, and you can pay one generic mana to remove any number of +1/+1 counters from it to deal that much damage to a creature

Your other artifact dorks get +1/+1, so it's a nice Glorius Anthem for artifact creatures in the Command Zone

A perfect time capsule card

It's very boring, and works very well

It's a little better than that, in fact, because you get to pick which of the two cards you want to Cascade into

Four mana for a counterspell is a lot, but if you can work it in on an early turn, it allows you to build your board while holding up more answers, which is a point these decks love to get to