mtg card cost Mana Cost: humanReadable.~[xx], 7 cards You may play cards as though they were other Magic cards of your choice with the same mana cost Richard Garfield, Ph.D.

A creature with renew allows the player to exile it from the graveyard at sorcery speed to put some kind of counter (usually a +1/+1, but not always) on another creature

As I say, there's a lot going on for a fairly high cost, and I struggle to see this card seeing too much play given the setup required to cast it for its Shift cost, especially in Ruby & Steel decks which typically skew far more aggressive

Effects like Duress specifically interact with cards in your hand, and thats the only zone the game recognizes for discarding

It stays goaded until your next turn

Let your deck embody the power and control of the Esper shard as you play with confidence and style.

I added in For the Common Good as another way to pump out a bunch of tokens and gain a little life