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Since Taekos ability has a blue and black hybrid mana cost to activate it, you can run Taeko with all the best Ninja creatures since theyre found in those colors

Its a planeswalker killer in potential, can give you life because its a food creature, and also grows when other artifacts are destroyed or sacrificed

This gives each Season a huge range of possible outcomes

Instead of hunting for the next big pull, manufacture it

Then when our foes cast that sweet spell, we can make a free 1/2 reach one too - the more players we have the better that gets

Then, you can spend six mana, a kinda steep but not too terrible price, to make a token copy of any artifact you control, except that token is a 1/1 Soldier creature in addition to its other types