If those thresholds fail, diagnose the bottleneck
This makes it even easier to close out games, especially if Eshki managed to stick around with a ton of counters on it (made easier with The Ozolith if it ever gets removed)
Aside from Pikachu, there's also Rowlet, Growlithe, Glossifleur, Smeargle, Bewear, Chinchou, Cutiefly, Drampa, Flaafy, Victini, Tynamo, Pangoro, Lapras and Ledyba
Its extremely versatilesometimes it protects your creatures, sometimes it removes blockers, and probably most often, it answers any number of stax-type creatures that are interfering with your plans long enough for you to win
Ponder has the most potential for power but can only really achieve this in combination with other cards, much like Brainstorm
eh Some of y'all are posting just general stax cards and no I mean super narrow hate cards, like the ones that exile yards and can instead draw a card if they aren't relevant so they aren't just dead cardsY'all I want to narrowly counter treasure tokens specifically, not ALL ARTIFACTS null rod does not solve the problem, I want stuff to swap in over my GY hate cards because treasure is more relevant than yard starts nowadays"players can't sacrifice tokens to activate mana abilities" would be perfect not "literally fuck you for playing artifacts" Yasharn is one of my all-time favorite cards for budget decks