It means you can get Excalibur, Sword of Eden down quicker, and it means you can turn a Loran of the Third Path or Boromir, Warden of the Tower into a cheeky one mana play while deploying something bigger and scarier
As Aaron Forsythe stated in an article on the Ninth Edition set back in 2005: The truth is that the mechanic is so complicated and wonky that we would never greenlight it today, but it has been grandfathered into the fabric of the game, and it does fill a nice niche
If X is 4 or greater, it gains haste until end of turn
Honorable Mention 2 Not every deck gains life, but those that do will likely enjoy the effect this card brings
If you're not lucky enough to get that card in one of your two daily packs, it's going to take opening 50 packs to get enough points to buy the card directly by spending all your pack points in one fell swoop
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