Winds of Abandon Exile target creature for 2 white mana is already a good effect, but since that creature's controller may search for basic lands equal to the number of creatures exiled this way, that alone would make Winds of Abandon a strictly worse Path to Exile
The reward is good card draw, or a huge burst of mana
One card (Garth One-Eye) instructs a player to create a copy of a card defined by name rather than by indicating an object to be copied
Not only do you deny your opponents access to their core engines this way, but you snatch them for your own use
could be seriously expensive
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