Here, you dont have the benefit of Constellation or Heroic, its designed to allow you to flip your werewolves and eat an attacking creature
they're good against a huge array of other decks in Pauper, making them a very attractive option to play
Collecting in the Pokemon Trading Card Game is mostly fed by the the booster packs, but you can also find opportunities to trade with characters in game, the cards featured drawn from the real life Base Set, Jungle, and Fossil card sets as well as some Promotional cards and ones unique to this game
After all, there are almost 700 cards with First Strike, including incredibly popular Commanders like Edgar Markov and Thalia and the Gitrog Monster
And the power creep thats given us The Great Henge and Luminarch Aspirant makes cards that add a counter at sorcery speed by tapping and with an additional mana cost seem awfully quaint
While a 3/2 for four mana isnt great, the ability to counter a wide range of effects (spells, activated abilities and triggered abilities) or destroy a creature or planeswalker when Ertai enters makes this card an amazing Swiss Army knife that can answer a number of kill-on-sight threats, often in a surprising way, as the fact that this card counters triggered abilities can really stymy a foes game plan in unexpected ways
