And since the Hero deck is faster out of the gates and presumably can inflict some significant damage before the Rats are much use on defense, if the Plague Rat deck does eventually shift to offense, must it hold some of its forces back, and if so, how much
With OP-14 and OP-15 cards in the format, the meta has diversified
Many decks within Blue can use their effects to trash Digivolution cards, helping you trigger the draw from Upamon easily, but just as many as source-stripping effects that Blue has, there are as many decks that like to hard play Digimon rather than Digivolve, meaning Upamon will, most of the time, be live
Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Not Legal Historic Not Legal Modern Legal Brawl Not Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Note that the "10 or less life" text didn't happen until the Vampire design team, but the idea of a black creature that reanimates itself at landfall was made by the design team