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You can't choose to pay life instead of exiling cards from the top of your library while you control Ashiok, and you can't split the payment between life and cards

From the launch of Pokmon Ruby and Sapphire in 2003, shininess would only be a cosmetic feature determined by an even more obscure and inscrutable set of calculations that involved even more hidden numbers (one of them is literally called a secret ID!)

The reason I've spent so much defining threshold mechanics is that I wanted to spend today's column talking about designing them

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instead, you can rely on just Glimpse the Cosmos and Kroxa as graveyard payouts while also being able to blink your Tymaret Calls the Dead with Yorion