Sure, Ephemerate is aggressively costed, but it cant untap your lands, untap your mana rocks or perma-steal creatures youve temporarily gained control of
As such, and thanks to this one card, the way that cascade works now has been fixed to accommodate the new era of double-faced cards we're now in
Normal combat damage happens with poison creatures but the player just doesnt gain a new poison counter when the trigger resolves
Sapphire decks are dominated by items and the powerful Flaversham draw engine, while Amethyst is built around the Merlin/Madam Mim bounce package that was introduced as early as set two
Attack #2: [3] Dragon Pulse (100) Discard the top 2 cards of your deck
It can be painful to find room in the 99 for cards like Relic of Progenitus and Soul-Guide Lantern that interact with the graveyard, so I highly value cards that happen to eat away at that resource