With four mana you can save Arcanis from removal and recast it, which made for a good control finisher some 20 years ago
There are ways around that, using cards like Squee, Goblin Nabob to discard meaningless cards or using other tricks like Stroke of Genius to draw extra cards that you can use to pay, but most people who played the Masticore played it fairly
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Goblins are not very good in the first categorytheir creatures are typically weak, small, cheap, and worthless (exceptions exist in all cases)
But its just a sign that were building a new and different kind of enchantment strategy here
There were the Circles of Protection as well as the lace cards like Deathlace and Chaoslace, but the most important cycle of all is certainly the Boon cycle