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They serve to give your side of the board tempo by allowing your creatures to attack (removing defenders), giving you more time to set up the board (removing attackers/expensive creatures), and allow for combat tricks (saving your creatures after damage is on the stack

To the set's credit, the Pikachu cards do genuinely look amazing

This card can draw you up to three cards if youre willing to attack everyone at the table, so the rewards are there if youre already running into opponents with 4 and up powered creatures anyway

Akiri also lets you pay to detach an equipment to give a creature indestructible which is a great way to keep your best creatures from folding to something as simple as Doom Blade