Bargain Another rather colorful take on kicker-like mechanics, cards with Bargain provide you the option to sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token, in order to access additional effects (rather than making it mandatory)
If we were being at all responsible, we'd be playing about 20 more pieces of interaction
Spending the full eight mana to cast it as a 5/5 does mean you can send it in as a 9/5 during your next turn which is pretty darn good if your opponent doesn't have an answer for it
an absolutely fantastic set of finishes for their team, thanks to an innovative and largely misunderstood deck by Long, Brian Schneider, Andrew Cuneo, and individual tweaks by each member of the Nation
Magic is a massive community, overlapping every other touchstone of art and popular culture
Esper Sentinel [Best White Card-Draw Engine in Multiplayer] White struggled with card draws for years