This is also huge for cards that say whenever you gain life, your opponents lose that amount of life: Enduring Tenacity, Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
2 Matoya, Archon Elder Is A New Staple For Blue Players Boosting Your Scrying Abilities To Even Greater Heights At first glance, a card like Matoya, Archon Elder isn't as exciting as some flashier options out there, but Matoya has astounding potential to become a staple in just about any Blue deck
Its basically a repeatable Trade Routes on a creature, and is a valuable early game blocker in todays aggressive meta
Many such cards have a triggered ability that transforms the card (when it's on the battlefield.) One of the most typical such ability is " at the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform (this card) ." Many players actually don't realize that this is a normal triggered ability that uses the stack, and therefore can be responded to
The Great Henge is one such card