These should be used carefully to protect your commander and board from board wipes or to prevent something far worse from happening
Everyone dreamed of opening a Retro Frame Wurmcoil Engine in their booster pack, but opening a serialized copy of the card yields a hefty payday
It turns any token creation into burn damage to every opponent
(My approximate reaction.) Bear Cub mightve been a functional reprint of Grizzly Bears, but at least there werent grand promises thrown around about half the set being all new cards
As for the requirement of putting any counter on your creature or your opponents, this is trivial in the appropriate deck
The list includes: Cori-Steel Cutter Monstrous Rage Abuelo's Awakening Heartfire Hero Hopeless Nightmare Leyline of Resonance (only in Arena Best-of-One) This Town Ain't Big Enough Up the Beanstalk Magic: The Gathering Commander ban list These cards are banned in sanctioned Commander games and can't be used a player's Commander or be present anywhere in their deck or sideboard: Ancestral Recall Balance Biorhythm Black Lotus Chaos Orb Channel Dockside Extortionist Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Erayo, Soratami Ascendant Falling Star Fastbond Flash Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Griselbrand Hullbreacher Iona, Shield of Emeria Karakas Jeweled Lotus Leovold, Emissary of Trest Library of Alexandria Limited Resources Lutri, the Spellchaser Mana Crypt Mox Emerald Mox Jet Mox Pearl Mox Ruby Mox Sapphire Nadu, Winged Wisdom Paradox Engine Primeval Titan Prophet of Kruphix Recurring Nightmare Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary Shahrazad Sundering Titan Sylvan Primordial Time Vault Time Walk Tinker Tolarian Academy Trade Secrets Upheaval Yawgmoth's Bargain All cards that have the card type 'Conspiracy' Adriana's Valor Advantageous Proclamation Assemble Rank and Vile Backup Plan Brago's Favor Double Stroke Echoing Boom Emissary's Ploy Hired Heist Hold the Perimeter Hymn of the Wilds Immediate Action Incendiary Dissent Iterative Analysis Muzio's Preparations Natural Unity Power Play Secret Summoning Secrets of Paradise Sentinel Dispatch Sovereign Realm Summoner's Bond Unexpected Potential Weight Advantage Worldknit All cards that reference "playing for ante" Amulet of Quoz Bronze Tablet Contract from Below Darkpact Demonic Attorney Jeweled Bird Rebirth Tempest Efreet Timmerian Fiends Racially insensitive cards or cards with racist depictions Invoke Prejudice Cleanse Stone-Throwing Devils Pradesh Gypsies Jihad Imprison Crusade Magic: The Gathering Modern ban list The Modern format allows players to construct decks with cards from Eighth Edition (released Summer 2003) onwards
