Kicker will let you pay the additional cost only when you cast the spell, and this can be done by paying additional costs like mana, paying life, or discarding cards
Thats a $20-$30 card purely because of nostalgia
Instead, we want to share a few of the missing Special Illustration Rares and Mega Attack Rares that are currently popular and highly liquid
Turning a drawback into an advantage just makes players feel good, so it's the kind of thing we make sure to do from time to time
The UW cards set in Innistrad would have been such easy money includes, this sucks so hard. AlfredHoneyBuns Other players echoed this sentiment
It shows you exactly what type of opening hand people kept and puts everyone but your own in-game knowledge in plain sight of the entire table (and you can hide the fact you may have kept a mediocre opener so they cant judge you, ahem)