The singleton Spell-Eater is in there to give some main deck resilience to planeswalkers and to keep opponents honest, but again it may need to be present in higher numbers
#18: Recurring Nightmare Weve already touched on a few Recurring Nightmare decks this month, but the biggest win for the card has got to be Brian Seldens 1998 World Championship list: Creatures (24) 1 Spike Weaver 1 Verdant Force 1 Tradewind Rider 4 Wall of Blossoms 4 Birds of Paradise 1 Man-o'-War 2 Nekrataal 2 Uktabi Orangutan 2 Spike Feeder 2 Wall of Roots 1 Spirit of the Night 1 Orcish Settlers 1 Cloudchaser Eagle 1 Thrull Surgeon Lands (22) Spells (14) Sideboard While Recurring Nightmare is most often thought of as part of Survival of the Fittest strategies, it has also enjoyed a fair bit of success in B/G Rock decks, just using it for value and in combo decks seeking to loop it, with any number of creatures that effectively net you mana each time
Luffy P [P-043] Source: Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 Issue 36/37 Bonus Why Its Popping Off: Because it was included as a bonus in Weekly Shonen Jump ( Japans iconic weekly manga anthology ), there were plenty of these circulating initially, trading at a modest 1,000 JPY to 2,000 JPY
ST04 Animal Kingdom Purple Kaido can be fun to play, but hes extremely weak and wont really work without Black Maria
