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CGC: Certified Guaranty Company History and general analysis CGC is the newest of these three in terms of the TCG market

It was one of Standards best cards throughout its run in the format, got nerfed for Alchemy, and even inspired a combo deck based around repeatedly targeting it with spells

In general, looting a card back to the top of your deck is worse than discarding a card (since you can't take advantage of any graveyard synergies), which means the +1 is only powerful with a very narrow subset of cards (things like Miracles)

It was best summarized by TappedOut user PookandPie in their primer as: So because of X, I get infinite +1/+1 counters