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But the real reason Bruvac is so powerful is that theres an entire class of card, all of the variants of Traumatize, that makes an entire player's deck go poof when resolved with Bruvac in play

Or, just in the Aurora example, you can choose the warding princess as your target

Celestial Armor helps buff Cloud, Ex-Soldiers power, gives him evasion, and crucially acts as a protection spell, too

With Marwyn, cards like Umbral Mantle and Staff of Domination are generally what we're looking for when it is time to close out the game

Being a dragon provides other synergies too for example using Crux of Fate for a one-sided board wipe