Icebreaker Kraken gets increasingly cheaper the later in the game you play it, and this creature has built-in recursion to help you use it over and over
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The persist can be more of an insurance plan for when opponents don't like how many cards you're drawing off this when you get going with Teval, the Balanced ScaleTeval, the Balanced Scale, Muldrotha, the GravetideMuldrotha, the Gravetide, or Marchesa, the Black RoseMarchesa, the Black Rose, among many other options
Alternatively, you can use wildcards to craft these cards to use as your Historic Brawl Commander or as powerful additions to your Historic decks
Its especially dangerous because it resets graveyards, which can ruin strategies that rely on recursion
The fact that Flare Blitz only requires two Fire Energy to use makes this Pokmon an intriguing alternative to Charizard ex