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So you can potentially see unhealthy combos like that arising again with things like Shiftry (NXD 72/99) from Next Destinies, or Vileplume from Ancient Origins, or Exeggutor (PLF 5/116) from Plasma Freeze, which are all just incredible Grass-type Pokemon that are held back by the fact that they're Stage 1 or Stage 2, which is a good way to cripple a card -- or to balance a card, I should say -- to give it a really strong ability, but you make it a Stage 1 or Stage 2, and it's slower

It is broken in decks that abuse it with cards that put a bunch of lands into your land

while the original strategy focused on mana denial, the term has grown to encompass any effect that slows your opponents development

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