Being able to remove whatever nonland card for just one mana and two life is really key: you can play it on turn one to map whatever your opponent is doing, you can delay it to snipe a Lurrus or to jam your combo immediately Its hard to say how much I love this card and how much I think its an egregious design
The Korean and Other-Language Versions Beyond Japanese and English, the set appears to have been released in other languages too
The power is there it will be interesting to see the brews this opens up
Notably, this is a free sacrifice ability, and those always play quite impressively
This applies to all card types, not just characters
While in recent years Mox Emerald has become more and more popular to actually tap for colored mana, the card has a rich and proud history of tapping for colorless, such as in Travis Speros Vintage Championship list from 2006: Creatures (1) Lands (15) Spells (44) 4 Brainstorm 4 Mana Drain 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Force of Will 1 Mana Vault 1 Sol Ring 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Mana Crypt 4 Gifts Ungiven 1 Burning Wish 4 Merchant Scroll 1 Chain of Vapor 2 Misdirection 1 Tinker 1 Rebuild 1 Black Lotus 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Recoup 1 Lotus Petal 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire You might be wondering, why just colorless
