ekans first edition pokemon card Team Rocket Pokémon Hit Points50 HP Form Ekans | Temporal Forces |

Quite the handicap in a draft

Given the number of Hero characters in this deck, Anna is quite useful and can be used to great advantage

In 2023, Mark Rosewater shared some statistics for play boosters on his blog, stating that there's a 37% chance your booster will contain two rares or mythic rares

(Aside: if you look through cards from the first couple years of Magic, youll be amazed by exactly how many of them make it impossible for your opponent to play spells or take relevant game actions

It also has a neat Cranial Plating variant in Cranial Ram, which reads really powerfully (and was immediately banned in Pauper)

That's not bad at all