Its basically just that, at least until you follow up with five spells and awaken the kraken
Shards of Alara Ooze Garden Puppet Conjurer Sarkhan Vol Puppet Conjurer was us playing in interesting new design space
Some general notes about -1/-1 counters: If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it
While this is an intense amount of set up, the ceiling for payoffs with Cayth is much, much higher than many of the other proliferate commanders
Lauded as a sort of second release for Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, these were released in early November, months after the sets initial June release date
This puts Un-sets in a very strange placetoo reliant on inside jokes for new players, too illegal for competitive playerswhich seems to leave a pretty small segment of the Magic community as the target audience