Its also necessary thanks to the number of turn 1 combos that rule those formats
Not a lot of sets have a period of design before exploratory, let alone a component that makes it all the way through to print, so it was especially fun looking back
Timesifter Timesifter slots nicely into all manner of green decks and anything battlecruiser-adjacent that focuses on playing the biggest, most bombastic spells at the table, but the risks of doling out extra turns to your opponents cant be ignored, especially since any player who wins the extra turn gets a flashy spell to play
I wrote in-depth about Ugin, the Spirit Dragons financial fate last week, and a reader wanted to know more about the future of the Ugins Fate alternate art Ugin, which I left out
The only real cost is that you need to feed Contamination by sacrificing a creature during your upkeep to keep the effect going
(2021-02-05) If you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you cant choose to cast it for any alternative costs