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And it can be surprisingly potent clock when games go long

Note that the combo doesn't work if Ballista only has one counter to begin with (maybe Hardened Scales entered after an X=1 Ballista)

After the first set of cards in Legends and a few other sprinklings, many of which established that gold cards would be consistently more powerful than their competition, gold came into its own in Invasion block

If you want to read the associated article, just put Bennie Smith and the commander name into Google and it should pop right up

On top of that, if your creature has a tap to activate ability, activating the ability now makes your creature deal damage equal to its power to another creature