(We've done an X in a loyalty payment cost many times.) The obvious choice for our first use was to have X be the loyalty count
While it will certainly be handy for tracking counters during games, this is the first time a Magic Prerelease event is giving away a d10 as well as a Spindown die
Those that arent will make you think twice about hitting them by applying a penalty such as Banishing the Challenging Character or forcing their player to discard a card
This set actually has several impressive hits if you were to crack packs over a year and a half after this set was released, with five impressive chase cards garnering median prices of close to $50 or above
Minthara, Merciless Soul is a 2/2 for four that accumulates experience counters after your turn goes by with a permanent leaving the battlefield
In those environments, it will serve as a sort of value-generating card that sometimes just steals games by doing an Overrun impression, which leaves a lot to like