retro frame cards mtg Alters : r/mpcproxies Tap two untapped creatures you control Esper Sentinel (Retro) [Modern Horizons

Gets back our useful big creature after a wrath or harsh removal spell

But those cards, and similar ones introduced since, were all bound together by one specific mechanic: they had the keyword action transform, meaning that you could swap back and forth by paying a cost and flipping the card over

The brilliance of Battles is that the design sidesteps the common pitfalls of opt-in tug-of-wars: your opponent cannot derive any benefit from them, they can only deny you from getting an additional benefit

III Until end of turn, another target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of lands you control

- isnt really resolvable within the logic of MTG, just the logic of life