The sole exception to this is if it gets kicked back to your hand, then all counters you've stashed on Skullbriar are lost
The Future We see a very strange pattern with this particular card: a massive amount of people bought into a sudden dip that occurred just yesterday as of the writing of this article
With many formats revolving around 20 life, dealing 10,000 damage is way overkill, and it's most likely there for flavor since Final Fantasy 's Jumbo Cactuar also has an attack called 10,000 Needles that deals that much damage to one party member
Power Matters Triggers Over Time This also debuted with Garruk's theme in a Core Set with Garruk's Packleader that costs five for a 4/4 uncommon and then as stuff with a 3 or better power arrives, you draw a card and Garruk usually makes 3/3 Beasts to trigger
Aside from the fact that this is probably the most cataclysmic event the game has ever seen story-wise, it's also the first set in an extremely long time to introduce a new card type, as well as just generally being jam packed full of crazy legends, double sided cards, new mechanics, and more