Black is usually fond of gaining power at any cost, but Braids is more of the This is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna hurt me type of black card
Space-Time Anomaly can do the same, although that one is based on your life total, so getting it out early (before you start taking a lot of damage) is best
Turning a random thrull into 2 colorless or 1 colored mana gives you all the ramp you need to make your deck function while stacking invaluable triggers from your sacrifice payoffs
Lets say I want to build a new Charizard VSTAR [Brilliant Stars] deck from scratch, but I dont own every single card I need for the deck
Whenever Alesha attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it
My favorite card game has enjoyed a huge surge of popularity following Pokmon Pocket's release last year, and the Pokmon TCG community has felt the effects of that throughout 2025