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The trick to designing evoke cards is similar to making good kicker cards, in that you want the "spell only" and "spell with creature" choices to both be viable at the point of the game where you can cast them

You effectively make it impossible to play from their hand so they basically cant play anything at all since they (typically) cant play cards from anywhere else

No matter what color the creature is, no matter if its an artifact or not, the creature will die (with or without regenerate)

MTG Card Artwork Dimensions (History) It may come as a surprise that while the physical card size has stayed the same, the artwork size has changed over the years as Wizards of the Coast updated their card frames

You may not get that much value back for each sacrifice individually, but thats a lot more than the zero value most decks are getting in these scenarios

By combining these two effects together, you get the tale of Moby Dick