Like Vampiric Dragon, you can toss a counter onto something about to die, and like it, the death trigger is for any creature, including your own
Weve been seeing more cards like this recently, and its a design space that Im very interested in
The limited environment looks like it will be a little slower
While I'm not overwhelmingly interested in playing this card, it does produces energy and that can get you some incremental value
We know that the Magic writers love to revive dead characters, though, so Im sure well see Bolas again sooner or later, especially ones that were never confirmed dead
Flameskull Maybe it's simply a lifelong love of skeletons that endears Flameskull to me so much, or that the monster's look straddles the uncanny valley between spooky and derpy