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: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn

Paying life is around in the format but it isnt some huge theme, and you need to both pay life and have a card where it matters that you can reduce its cost It can ramp your mana quite effectively, and that makes it more likely that you can get a creature with power 4 or great into play quickly, at which point Ruby herself becomes a significantly better attacker

This can stop your opponent from doing many things, including recovering HP by Evolving their Active Pokemon, getting Abilities they need on the field, or Evolving to bypass Status Effects