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Comparative Analysis Making surge happen makes Comparative Analysis good, but a little fussy compared to the cards to come

It also has an extra effect where, if the equipped card smacks your opponent, the sword deals 2 damage to a target of your choice and you get to draw a card

From a game mechanics sense, this means the end of Investigate from the first set, as the mystery is solved, and the addition of several new mechanics Emerge, Meld, and Escalate to represent things going from bad to worse

If your goal is I want a custom Magic card that looks clean and plays well, Good and Better cover about 90% of use cases

Though Reconnaissance Mission and Bident of Thassa are effectively strictly better versions of Coastal Piracy, a deck that wants one will usually benefit from all three