Most of the time, new cards can quickly be parsed and reduced to previously-experienced game states
The 3-cost Artifact Ashnod's Altar, which lets you sacrifice a creature to farm mana, is represented by Sir Bedivere's Scales - a device for identifying and condemning witches which was the height of medieval English science (or, at least, more effective than checking for warty noses)
A counterpoint to my previous argument: Everybody knows that historically blues got better spells overall in MTG, and the MTGO Vintage Cube shows it
It might be time to revisit some of the Ayara, First of Locthwain decks I pitched early in Kaldheim preview season since all these black creatures trigger the drain ability with Awaken the Blood Avatar as a big finisher
My foil alteration process
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