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Never to be far from her political games, Olivia also brings a bit of politicking to the table through effects like Bounty Board , which encourages your opponents to destroy each others' creatures for a payout, and several effects that goad or gain control of other creatures

Waiting until Best Friend reduces it even further to 40,000 Stardust

Common among them is their origin in the earliest sets of the TCG: so far, all those which have been printed are from Base Set and Jungle or are promotional cards from the first three years of the TCG's existence

And yes, I'm a big ol' hypocrite complaining about lazy commander designs being "do X easy thing to draw a card" but going gaga over this card, and while Akiri does have a whiff of that in her first ability, to my defense this is card draw in Boros which could certainly use more of it and her second ability is super unique and flavorful: Akiri is saving your creatures from a fatal fall (removal) by swinging out (unattaching) her hook rope thingies to catch you

But It turned out to be far more powerful than anyone could have expected, and it was swiftly banned in Standard, as well as several other formats