You lose a card in the exchange, but the upside is this triggers "whenever a player discards" effects like Waste Not for the entire table's worth of cards
What I like to do first is break them down by their casting cost with creatures and noncreature spells separated
It's an incredibly defensive card for red, and can be tricky to work around unless you're including it in some kind of goad deck, but even then you wouldn't want this as your commander
While the original Urzas Saga printing of this card will set you back over $50, it has actually seen a number of notable reprints over the years, including in Jumpstart , Ultimate Masters , and Modern Horizons 3 , which has driven this cards price down considerably overall
Next, do a test draw by pulling 7 cards to see how the game might play out with the cards youve chosen
As such, my creature survives