This means that although the new set has a lot of top-down designs intended to evoke mechanics from the Final Fantasy series, these tend to look and feel like Magic mechanics, and we expect to see at least a few of these concepts return some day
The trade-off is that you'll be returning an attacking creature to your hand to cast it for this cost
For our purposes, it's close to a perfect land: It enters the battlefield untapped, giving us a turn-one Siren Stormtamer or Deadeye Tracker while helping us cast a two-drop of the opposite color on the next turn, like Kitesail Freebooter or Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
(2023-02-04) Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way
Finally, another archetype where white gets better and better is the auras/Voltron archetype , which consists of piling auras or equipment on a single creature for the win
If you want to turn creatures sideways while accelerating, then Sword of the Animist might be the perfect tool for the job