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The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps

Considering the massive boost in notoriety that Charizard and Blastoise received for being the box art characters for the Red and Blue games, respectively, the same is true for Lugia

He has been shown connecting dimensions through portals in the anime

This guy attack well, blocks well, and even evades removal well

When your commander is capable of drawing cards for you, this limits the need to include multiple sources of card advantage in your deck

In his case, the idea was to create a deck full of cloning effects, cast Gyruda on turn 1 and chain multiples of his ETB effect until a haste-enabler or another win condition was found