No longer able to rely on the pretext that the Fall set can get special treatment by virtue of being both a large set and the start of a block, they were officially on the hook to give the Spring set the same prominence
Since flipping battles requires some sort of damage, players now have to decide whether their time is better spent attacking opponents directly or if the game could potentially be won faster by focusing on the battle instead
And there's no better feeling than watching an opponent scoop after you've perfectly sided in the silver bullet that dismantles their entire game plan
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian Ramp (CTRL to add secondary) Removal Removal (CTRL to add secondary) Theft Ensnared by the Mara Each opponent faces a villainous choice They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player
Youll either get a good card to cast, or make this creature into a 3/2 with menace to keep hitting them, often when you exile something too expensive