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Casting a 1/1 and attacking the next turn as a 3/2 flying is back-breaking, especially on the blind flip, while you ride the flier to victory using counterspells and bounce spells

At the beginning of that turn's upkeep, cumulative upkeep adds an age counter and then says, "Hey, pay 1." (This assumes your abilities can speakmine can.) Echo sits mostly quietly, though it occasionally mumbles about the old days

I appreciate that they specified red creatures so it isnt just an Eldrazi commander, and red has plenty of decent creatures to smack your opponent with like Ancient Copper Dragon and Drakuseth, Maw of Flames

If you apply Pokey's third ability as a replacement effect to rolling a d20, other than the original effect that called for the d20 roll, all other game effects, including replacement effects and triggered abilities, recognize that you flipped a coin rather than rolled a d20

Heres what the MTG rules say about counter

Tireless Tracker gets a lot of love in Modern, but none from me