While it is better to pay the one mana most of the time, sometimes you just can't if you want to make any kind of progress on your board state
This list focuses on cards that can put counters on themselves and others, with a bias towards Commander and Cube, though all-stars in other formats can show up
While the card has found a home in Standard in some midrange builds, the bigger deal is that it's seeing Pioneer play in Waste Not and even Rakdos Midrange thanks to its ability to grind out value by 3-for-1'ing the opponent with its enters the battlefield trigger
When a card says Gift a tapped Fish, it means that you may choose an opponent, and if you do, that player creates a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token once the spell resolves
In Modern, there are threats that are powerful enough to play despite being caught by common removal, and threats that are powerful because they dodge common removal
Due to the different flow of time in the Feymarch, she physically matures during her stay despite being gone only a short time in the real world