Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls
But due to the fun-first culture of the format, shutting down someones ability to play their cards even if its partly a consequence of that opponents deck building choices is heavily stigmatized
Meanwhile, its alternate art version is two tiers higher on the Disney Lorcana rarity list, having been classified as an Enchanted card
Now that you can refresh your hand back up to five cards, you can bounce back at really any point of the game and draw the cards that you need
- a deck can contain up to 99 copies of this card: which is fun in both a gameplay and thematic sense
In concert with ways to untap artifacts, mana-producing artifacts such as Grim Monolith, Thran Dynamo, Worn Powerstone and others from Urzas block, Tolarian Academy, blues milling-focused finisher Stroke of Genius, and Metalworker, the artifact deck from Urzas block was simply too strong to ignore