While Magic and other card games have some humor on their cards, they usually arent as overtly funny as a lot of the cards from The Spoils were
When devign (the period of overlap between design and development) began, lead developer Ben Hayes had an idea
It's definitely a strange ability, but the gist of it is that connecting with your 3/3s will let you cast powerful spells for free, which will likely make it even easier to use Magar and connect in combat as the game goes on
The power level of the Dominus and Twilight cycles, matched with the speed boost games will get from an increased presence of poison counters, means that this set is going to have a huge impact on Commander
You can also fetch Cage and the other one-mana hate cards out of the sideboard with Karn, the Great Creator
There're other characters like Zagorka, Sash and Waistcoat, and the three Numena I'd like to see as well, but given this is focusing on returning characters, those ones are probably for another article