With the latest One Piece ban list, several slower Leaders from OP-08 like Marco (who appears in Red/Blue and has a heavy Whitebeard theme) and Charlotte Pudding (Yellow/Purple and focused on Big Mom Pirates) now have a chance to stake their flag in competitive play
This suggests that even early in the TCGs life, older competitors had crafted archetypes that would be later be well-known in the competitive scene
With Blightbelly Rat thrown in the mix youd kill your opponent in 10 turns with poison damage (because of toxic 1) and combat damage (because the creature has 2 power)
All the legends in these decks have a unified goal of working together within their decks theme and its fun building cards like this to have that creative team synergy, whether thats sayinteracting with counters in Final Fantasy X or playing with the graveyard in Final Fantasy VI
This Simic card was clearly designed as a casual, value-oriented commander for sea monsters decks, and it hits that note perfectlyat the expense of never doing anything else
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