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(Activate each exhaust ability only once.) You may activate this creature's exhaust ability without discarding cards if you just want to put a +1/+1 counter on it

If you want a historical piece, this is an alright starting point, but I would absolutely otherwise recommend any other method over it

Windriddle Palaces completely upends this underlying rule

Fact or Fiction (T1, Ext, S, Block) R&D created the divvy mechanic in Invasion (taken from the card Raging River from Alpha) as a skill tester for players

The biggest strength of a lot of the best blue cards MTG has ever printed is their ability to control the flow of the game

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