I'll discuss each product coming in the set and the non-unique contents you can expect to find in each
Wrap Up Ephara, Ever-Sheltering | Illustration by Johan Grenier Im really happy with battles as a card type
Theyre a natural fit for archetypes like aristocrats, midrange grind decks, and fast aggro builds that pressure opponents while creating long-term advantages
The first category to look at is the most obvious one: spend X mana to cast a card, and when it enters the battlefield, you get Y energy
It turns out that Magic players love casting spells for free, even if free in this case is pay seven mana for an artifact and cross your fingers you overcome the randomness to get what you want. The silver lining, of course, is whatever spell youre copying from your graveyard gets to stay there on the chance youll copy it again, unlike many cards of this ilk that exile the spell following the resolution of the copy trigger, so if you can find a way to finesse only one legal target for the Crucibles trigger (perhaps by ensuring the top two cards of your library are lands with something like Senseis Divining Top), then youll get to copy the same thing over and over
