Even if you only lose one life, youre still saving one mana per card you cast - and that could lead to game-changing turns
With flash enablers like [[Leyline of Anticipation]], [[Valley Floodcaller]], or [[Vedalken Orrery]], things get even sillier you can copy any spell while Azula is attacking
Persist reads: When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter. Because +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters cancel out, you can create a loop with: Any free sacrifice outlet Two Persist creatures You need two because Long Fengs trigger requires a target as it goes on the stack before the Persist creature returns
With haste and the ability to tap and copy another nonlegendary creature you control, it turns ordinary creatures into immediate value engines
Curator of Mysteries | Illustration by Christine Choi Cycling is a keyword ability that allows you to pay the cycling cost of a card to discard it
Along with that, MTG Aetherdrift also introduces two new pre-con Commander decks but neither of these two decks has an immediately obvious tie-in to the sets racing theme
