That is a huge opportunity when designing for an acquisition audience new players are going to recognize the story moments we put on cards
While you're spending 5 whole mana for something that usually costs just 2, the upside with this little wizard is that you can choose any number of spells or abilities on the stack, meaning its the perfect hate card against pesky storm cards like Brain Freeze or Grapeshot
It sucks to discard your entire hand, but thats on you to have additional discard synergies, or have close to zero cards
Unlike Mickey and Minnie from Fabled the two Iconic Rare cards that felt like two sides of the same coin thematically in Ariel and Hades we have two cards that look as different as they in fact are
and I call you Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. And once again, the warriors of the Mardu shouted her name. (The Truth of Names, James Wyatt) The fact that a trans woman is deliberately portrayed in this game as a person of fierce passion, leadership and action is revolutionary
