SAW IT COMING Speaking of mana efficiency, 2021 and Kaldheim may have given us the best answer yet to What would make a 1UU counterspell feel exciting? After 15 years of Cancel, few would have expected it sometimes costs 3U instead to be the ideal solution
Thats not going to happen very often, but it does mean that if Requiem Monolith is in my deck, Im much more likely to want a Pinnacle Kill-Ship
Any damage assigned to a creature by a source with deathtouch is considered to be lethal regardless of that creature's toughness
Barrier requires you to discard one Psychic energy card from Mewtwo , but, if you do, next turn, Mewtwo will prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, that your opponent tries to deal to it
However, as I've said elsewhere I definitely let that bleed over into other cards that don't necessarily deserve it, so I've done some scryfall diving to see what I might have missed
And lets clear up a myth early