At its heart, Pocket Monsters: Red and Green was a very basic Japanese role-playing game
A Flash counter and or blocker, there's some very fun way to use this, especially during things where your opponent may assume they're safe to be greedy, such as on a turn-ending before untapping fully, and I agree with Loxi: players like to tap out a lot carelessly
This falls into the Big Red archetype, which uses red as a midrange deck rather than aggro, as mono-colored red decks traditionally are
Even if they weren't my preferred flavor of pet card, no one would sensibly pick them when confronted with a Grave Titan, and to better meet the expectations of my drafters and the needs of my cube, they've all since been removed: I went In the years since, we've had a wealth of powerful aggressive one-drops in black that have been able to recur from the graveyard that have become staples in cubes of all styles, like: And even the higher CMCs have found a great, powerful cards that are happy to sit in your yard, eagerly waiting for their moment to shine: Thanks @sigh for the reminders on the last three here
