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Meanwhile, Great Tusk and Iron Treads appear as Ancient and Future Pokmon ex, and Charizard, Forretress, and Espathra show off their own unique skills as Shiny Tera Pokmon ex

Mentor compares the power of the creature with mentor with that of the target creature at two different times: once as the triggered ability is put onto the stack, and once as the triggered ability resolves

Then Brigid's three mana Selesnya is also making a 1/1 Kithkin or Giant Growth or fighting as removal

MAKE THE READS TO MAKE THEM BLEED Theres a tendency to think of blue permission decks as the most cerebral of Magic strategies, but I think that black discard decks are an even better fit for players who like to outwit their foes

I love how the mechanic leverages Magics history and has this neat little narrative/mechanical cohesion within each spellbook, but the implementation feels insufficiently random, awkwardly presented, and not always immediately obvious what the narrative/mechanical cohesion is