The utility of them does count in their favour as counterspells but far less so than it would do so in a simple card review
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theres plenty of land ramp, and you can do some nasty stuff if you untap cards like Circle of Dreams Druid, Karametra's Acolyte, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
up to 1 of your opponent's Characters with a cost of 0
Some abilities are just sign-posted to be linked with other cards in the set, like with the aforementioned Jim Hawkins, Space Traveler card, and this card is almost definitely built exclusively to get yourself a free Lucky Dime, the seven cost item that no doubt plenty of decks will be building around this set
To give you a perspective, a Stoke Charizard EX (that cant attack unless it has 5 Energy for Steam Artillery) can now use the 1 Energy, 20 DMG Combustion that Shining Revelry Charmander learns