To play up that these are a bunch of old mechanics, we chose to put these two cards, and only these two cards, in old, original card frames
Blinking or otherwise cheating a creature with offspring into play will completely skip the time you can pay for the token copy
He shuts down larger spells, hurts ramp, storm, buyback, my own Equinaut deck (which likes to play and replay creatures), and countless other decks that either want to cast something big or net multiple spells
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I also have the artistic skills of a third grader so I may not be the best person to formulate ink/paint conspiracy theories
The question is whether achieving its base rate of draw two with no upside about fifty percent of the time is too bad to merit playing the card at all