It would have been easy for Wizards to decide "hey, this is a great title let's just copy the card and make it snowy and it's a holiday card!" But instead they went full top-down design reminiscent of the best-designed cards to ever leave Mark Rosewater's desk: "what if Snow Mercy was a
The Mana Base The deck runs a finely-tuned 3-color manabase built to support aggressive starts
The Limited archetypes were also reviewed, showing players what directions they can go in Sealed or Draft with the multicolor signpost cards
I have a hard time calling something thats a Food or Treasure-specific sac outlet or a Thopter-specific haste enabler a token payoff
If I had a friend who hadnt played since college but had mastered the game then, and also someone who never got into card games, and they both wanted to play some Magic
Secondly, its even playable in Modern, where it can do a great job protecting your board before getting in for three in the air