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Giving you more mana to place threats down as well as giving it Rush or a +1/+1 counter is extremely powerful

Something along the line of a scannable code on cards to verify authenticity would get the job done, but implementing the program would be costly, and it wouldn't help with all the cards that are currently in print (barring some sort of mass-exchange program, which would be even more prohibitively expensive)

Pairing it with something like Font of Agonies turns all that life-payment into a steady stream of removal, and it has a great baseline of doubling up on fetch land activations

PRINTINGS OF CRUEL ALLIANCE Cruel Alliance has been printed once in Marvel Super Heroes (2026).

Suspend is a removal spell that will exile target creature with two time counters on it