Is there any reason this doesn't cost 3UU? If all cards are powerful AND easily splashable, there's no reason not to run 4-5 color deck, is there?
WotC has the tendency to make cards very lazy on colored mana (outside of examples that specificly moke the manacosts).
Almost all the good cards in the latest time should cost more colored mana, but they intentionally cut it down to colorless to make it easier to splash the card, making it universally more playable for different decks ; which is terrible for the games balance, but makes the already good cards even better for more decks.
The downside is that the restrictions to an color become much more slippery.
Elder Dragons in M19 are a pretty good example of that, reducing the cost of them to single colored mana.
Almost all the Gods in Amonkhet also could have much more colored manacosts to bind them to the colors they are in, but they really badly want to make the cards as easily playable to as many decks as possible.
Rules question. If you blink a manifested card say with Aminatou's -1, and it is a permanent, does it re-enter the battlefield face up?
So long as it's not an instant or sorcery, yes. (Instants and sorceries would remain exiled.)
Even before manifest, this was basically how Astral Slide worked.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
WotC has the tendency to make cards very lazy on colored mana (outside of examples that specificly moke the manacosts).
Almost all the good cards in the latest time should cost more colored mana, but they intentionally cut it down to colorless to make it easier to splash the card, making it universally more playable for different decks ; which is terrible for the games balance, but makes the already good cards even better for more decks.
The downside is that the restrictions to an color become much more slippery.
Elder Dragons in M19 are a pretty good example of that, reducing the cost of them to single colored mana.
Almost all the Gods in Amonkhet also could have much more colored manacosts to bind them to the colors they are in, but they really badly want to make the cards as easily playable to as many decks as possible.
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Took me a second read to grok the card. Love it.
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So long as it's not an instant or sorcery, yes. (Instants and sorceries would remain exiled.)
Even before manifest, this was basically how Astral Slide worked.
On phasing: