And the cards you cast don't get exiled so you can repeat some powerful effects every turn
We felt the first ability should gain loyalty and the third should lose loyalty, so we gave the second ability a loyalty loss and the fourth ability a loyalty gain to even things out
Additionally, at one point the team in charge of storylines decided there was going to be a sentient race of gorillas prominently featured in the set
The Commander Obeka is an Ogre Chronologist, a type of wizard specializing in the manipulation of time , as seen in her other card, Obeka, Brute Chronologist
It's still valuable later in the game as a 2-dropinstant
This five-mana red and white planeswalker comes in with four loyalty, can create 3/2 spirit tokens, allows you to Discover with a value of four - which means you can cast the next nonland card in your library with a mana value of four or less for free - and lets you exile cards from your graveyard to gain mana, then cast those cards if you want to
