In Limited very few decks could defeat a Masticore even if it had no backup at all, and despite a huge portion of the cost of this card being something you need to pay continuously often players who used Tinker would go get a Masticore
Once a character has been on the board for a turn, you can perform actions with them, either challenging an opponent's character or questing to gain lore
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This is a very real payoff for a towns deck, and if that deck is good, this sorcery is bound to be one of the reasons why
An infamous example from Shadows Over Innistrad was for Descend Upon The Sinful, which in French was translated to "Fondre sur les pcheurs", which, thanks to the incorrect diacritic on pcheurs, means Descend Upon The Fishermen
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