But it also does more, as when you tap it, you can then pay energy into it to make a X/X aetherborn token, where X is equal to the amount of energy paid back in
Boring deckbuilding that becomes "UGx deck can run Hermit and Oracle to win", and thus you end up with twenty different UGx decks that look the same
Printed in 1993s Alpha set, this blue sorcery forces all players to shuffle their hand, graveyard, and library together before drawing seven fresh cards
An attempt to make a legendary spell, instead of a permanent
EDHREC regularly places it among the strongest Legendary Artifacts in the format because of its ability to immediately threaten game ending combos, and Cube enthusiasts have quickly slotted in as the preferred pay off for Tinker decks
The times when this is most backbreaking is when you play a mana accelarent on turn 1 and 2 and then drop this on turn three, sending your opponent back to the stone age in terms of their chances of developing in the game