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Most midrange decks can kill you before you do that if that is all you are doing

Later on in the game where a cheap small dork is weak and where an inability to block is far more relevant you at least have the option to make as a 1/1 which may sound awful but is correct surprisingly often and makes the card far far better than a straight 2/2 can't block would be

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It can do the same each time it attacks, and it can help keep itself alive during attacks thanks to its ability

In Fourth Edition , the symbol changed to this: If you look closely, you see that the symbol is a tilted Magic card with a curved arrow on the back of it

Mask of Memory, Dark Bargain, Daretti, Scrap Savant, and Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion continue the draw/discard combo, with the latter two providing some nice recursion and some mana to spend while burning through cards