The card pool decision comes down to two questions: how many Life cards do you want to remove proactively, and how deep does your Blue counter package need to be
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If this deck is going to win games, it may end up feeling like my tablemates are suffering a death by a thousand cuts because I'm running so many little ways to push their life totals down
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They also have an ability that reads, Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card, and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control. While this isnt a traditional approach to a +1/+1 counter deck, having a slightly more political flavor to the whole affair can be a lot of fun
While I won't discuss specifics here for obvious reasons, intentional counterfeiters have a few pretty consistent "tells" that we've grown familiar with seeing, and we've been very successful at distinguishing between people accidentally sending out a counterfeit and those who intend to defraud people
