Not only did Chris want to get abilities that would play well, they also wanted them to thematically tie to the seasons as best they could
Fun fact : 95% of Lathril, Blade of the Elves decks in EDHREC run this card
That does some wild stufffor example, it gets Marsh Flats back twice for actual land ramp in Orzhov, it lets you feed cards like Dusk Legion Zealot into a Warren Soultrader multiple times, or it wrings the most value possible from cards like Boromir, Warden of the Tower and Dauthi Voidwalker
Even though Queen Brahne is likely to die in combat, it should be able to trade off with something in the process and leave you up one Wizard token, which is a pretty good deal
Getting multiple cascade triggers off of a single spell is amazing and Call Forth the Tempest not only gives you three spells for the cost of one but deals damage while it's at it
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