Cost The first broad metric to evaluate is cost
Now, the downside of the card is that it costs a whopping SIX mana, and will only do a thing if youre set up for it, otherwise it wont impact the board at all, and thats going to be pretty brutal
Most of these require three cards, but Earthcraft and your Commander are enough, provided you control a basic land
If you like +1/+1 counters (and other assorted counters), Counter Blitz is the deck for you
these decks take every Hardened Scales variant they can find, and this is one of the best
Notwithstanding both the timing of LCIs release and the coincidence with the banned list, Tidebender looks to be a formidable answer to the most pervasive of cards in the format, most notably The potential of Tidebender is really strong