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You draw your card, then you encode Last Thoughts on your Blighted Agent (nasty choice, by the way), placing Last Thoughts in exile

This will add up tremendously with each hit

Its ability to preemptively stop counters gives it immense strategic value in competitive play

Kadena does also offer card draw which Animar does not, but if we're comparing the two in terms of power, I think Animar is far more degenerate

Once Sephiroth flips, which is easy to achieve with an Accursed Marauder or any kind of Grave Pact effect, the Blood Artist effect becomes permanent, and you get access to a terrifying 5/5 Flier that can draw you several cards a turn