It popped up again with the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate commander decks in 2022, especially with the white-black Party Time deck focusing specifically on the mechanic
I wanted to take a look at some of the other zero-mana-value cards in Magic that spark joy, some that yall might not know of
Invasion of Ikoria gives us that creature for the cost of skipping six damage rather than paying mana, and if there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's that paying life to make mana is almost always worthwhile
(Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.) The Core Legendary Land - Rare (Transforms from Matzalantli.) Fathomless descent Tap: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard
These rankings will reflect how hard it is to kill a creature and its general playability