flamigo pokemon card - 227/193 - Paldea Evolved - Illustration Rare Flock When you play this Pokemon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn Pokemon Paldea Evolved Illustration Rare

Every Secret Lair starts with its concept, Heggen explains, and from there we then look to the cards

The bad part is that most of the time Sneak Attacking a creature doesnt let you add to the board permanently, and if you dont have some board presence youre probably still going to lose

(The actual chain of events took place over many weeks, but for the sake of dramatic license and a punchy story, I've condensed it down to a single conversation.) Me : Okay Wendy, so what's wrong with the name

Not only does it give you a big creature and potentially draw you a card like the rest it also wipes the board, something thats extremely important in games of Commander

Orcish Spy is just a 1/1 for one, and while it has an ability, not only is it an ability that does nothing (you look at the top cards of someone's library and put them back in the same order ), but the ability also requires Orcish Spy to tap, which is exactly what you want to be doing in your curve-out Mono-Red Aggro deck

The same is true if a prepared creature becomes a copy of something else, even if it's then a permanent without a prepare spell