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If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.) Creature - Skeleton Troll Moss-Pit Skeleton Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with three +1/+1 counters on it

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And I think that pretty much gives away the reason lock cards arent treated as just another answer by the player base

Krenko, Mob Boss Krenko, Mob Boss is so good it just crowds out alternatives, even those that add another color and a suite of other options for the 99, like Wort, Boggart Auntie