Think of these as spells or events
As you can see, Magic Arena offers a fun digital experience that captures much of what makes Magic: The Gathering so much fun, at your convenience night or day
This effect can be completely back-breaking in practice, allowing you to acquire all sorts of things while gaining tons of free information
This stage could be a completely separate blogpost, but let's note that he took the term "mana" from Larry Niven's Warlock books (and Larry had taken it from Polynesian Mythology, but was still rewarded by having his name backwards on neviN yrraL's Disk), and that he removed the use of dice and tearing up destroyed cards during this stage
If these are well-distributed, Wizards could easily address the main set imbalance by the end
Plus when you cast it you get to take an extra turn, which allows you to attack before your opponent has an answer, of which there are very few