The card was banned for breaking the game, which came from DCI's concerns over "Combo Winter," a four-month period in which players were fleeing the game en masse due to the perception that broken cards were ruining the experience
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Brawl Legal Vintage Legal Timeless Legal Commander Legal Pauper Not Legal Oathbreaker Legal Penny Not Legal Toolbox Buy This Card Notes and Rules Information for Season of the Bold: You pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played with the permission granted by the second mode
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Persecute Artist At the beginning of Unhinged design, I said to the team, For the record, I don't know how we're going to do it yet, but we have to have a Rebecca Guay joke. Then a month or so later, I was finding ways to make more artist matter cards when I stumbled across the idea of doing a Persecute for artists rather than color
While hes in play, your opponents cant gain life and whenever an opponent casts their first spell per turn, you get to choose a different opponent and deal damage equal to its mana cost