Advanced Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus X WIND Level 4 [ BeastEffect ] ATK 1800 DEF 1200 If "Advanced Dark" is not in a Field Zone, send this monster to the GY
Mono Red simply doesn't have that many good tools to shore up these weaknesses and play a grindier game, and the few options they do have are usually not budget-friendly (e.g
None of those chaos rolls wasnt worth it
Once in play the persist ability lets the Shepherd sit as insurance against wrath effects for all the non-persist creatures you might have, or any that already used their persist ability once
This puts them among the rarer serialized cards in the game, like the X/250 concept Praetors from Modern Horizons 3
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