It's admittedly clunky, but it's still an unconditional removal effect that fits our theme
Its also a 1-drop, which might allow you to cast a Samurai's Katana on turn 2
Meanwhile, the format-defining Charizard ex deck blueprint capitalizes on the Infernal Reign ability to pull three basic Fire elements directly from the deck upon evolution for explosive immediate turn damage output
Instant Rare null/null LEGAL Brawl LEGAL Commander LEGAL Freeform LEGAL Frontier LEGAL Legacy LEGAL Modern LEGAL Pioneer LEGAL Vintage Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability
Prototype also introduces a subtle new text innovation: the concept of size. Magic regularly adjusts its language, and size is a shorter and arguably more intuitive way to say power and toughness. Im not sure whether size as a game term opens up any new design space, but just cleaning up text boxes is worthy cause in its own rightalthough sometimes freeing up space in text boxes seems to just allow for denser text boxes
To make up for that, those 12 cards have a higher-than-normal chance of including rare and mythic rare cards