These are a great way to smooth your mana, which is vital when running decks with three colours
lets just say it involves trading cards for points, and Im not an economics professor but I have been told that inflation was involved
Players would run this card alongside Cascade effects, Cascade into Valki and then actually play Tibalt, cheating in a seven mana planeswalker that could draw cards, remove dangers, and threaten an ultimate that would give you all the options you could possibly need
Each creature that enters the battlefield under your opponents control, from Rogue Refiners to Thopter tokens, will represent a two-point life swing, which can really add up over the course of the game, making this two-mana investment a critical card against the current best deck in the format
Machine Gods Effigy A clone that makes a creature into a noncreature artifact seems suspect at first, but the trick lies in avoiding creatures that have to attack