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As the most popular Commander from MTG Avatar, it seems players cant get enough of this cards spell-doubling shenanigans

If you have enough creatures, you can use them to pay the mana cost and the buyback cost to effectively cast the spell for free, and it even comes back to your hand

To put this in context, Aether Revolt was the previous record holder for least valuable mythics (at least, since I started calculating expected value, back in Khans block) and Hour of Devastation mythics are worth nearly 10% less than Aether Revolt mythics

Theres a lot more that goes into this, but getting too far into the nitty gritty comparisons ends up having us look more at the editor as a card maker rather than a whole set editor