In spite of this, however, the cards that will be featured in PRB-02 will still remain tournament-legal for the foreseeable future, regardless of when they originally made their debuts in the game
When cards have a specific large number on them, I wonder what the conversation during design and development looked like
2 Likes sturzflugbombardieru February 24, 2023, 7:43pm 8 pfm: This is a really cool and thought out thread
From Shelob, to Treebeard, to the Eagles, they all make tokens
Simic Neoform (2.6% of the Winner's Metagame) 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Allosaurus Rider 4 Consign to Memory 4 Eldritch Evolution 4 Neoform 4 Planar Genesis 4 Summoner's Pact 3 Hedge Maze 3 Pact of Negation 3 Veil of Summer 2 Disciple of Freyalise 2 Generous Ent 2 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 2 Nourishing Shoal 1 Breeding Pool 1 Griselbrand 1 Xenagos, God of Revels 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 Bridgeworks Battle 1 Polluted Delta 1 Ureni, the Song Unending 1 Hooting Mandrills 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Snow-Covered Forest 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 Endurance 1 Flooded Strand 1 Wooded Foothills 3 Mystical Dispute 3 Nature's Claim 3 Ice-Fang Coatl 1 Hooting Mandrills 1 Into the Flood Maw 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 1 Veil of Summer 1 Abhorrent Oculus 1 Snow-Covered Forest Simic Neoform seeks to cast Allosaurus Rider by exiling two green cards, sacrifice it to Neoform or Eldritch Evolution, and tutor out a game-winning creature

If an effect allows a player to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, that player can't choose to cast it and pay its mana cost unless another rule or effect allows that player to cast it that way