https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/2020-visions-modern-cantrips-part-2/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/02/2020-visions-modern-cantrips-part-2/#comment-2130217 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:24:03 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=21347#comment-2130217 I feel like the Astrolabe also is a perfect example of the issues that can come up in card design of the granularity of mana cost. I mean, prophetic prism at 2 mana is a solid limited card. At one mana though, it has helped define Modern and Legacy both. It’s like the old Mark Rosewater line about how ideally a hard counter would cost 2.5 mana, because 3 is too high, and 2 is too low.

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