On August 4, just a day before Debt of Loyalty began to creep up, and two days before it truly soared, writer Riley Hicks penned a piece that sung its praises, calling the card an "undiscovered Commander super-staple", and even hinting that "if players start to become more aware of this card and demand increases, it could potentially become more expensive in the near future." We've previously covered how content creators like The Command Zone are sometimes able to blow up a card's price all by themselves, simply by mentioning its potential, and especially by suggesting that it could soon be valuable, and it appears that might be exactly what's happened here
Players can respond to the reflexive triggered ability as normal, knowing the amount of damage that will be dealt as that ability resolves
The core of the change is that we're no longer assuming split cards have two sets of characteristics when they're not on the stack
Its also a marvelous example of greens color identity and ideas of growth
Continuous effects are very interesting
When each card can win the game, youre nearly always ahead of the curve