mtg cards like silent arbiter | Fifth Dawn - Portuguese No more than one creature can block each combat. Cards that do similar things?

While being gold or having other utility is harder to account for in terms of objective power in your removal spell the frequency such cards get played should be a strong indicator as to the card's worth as a cube inclusion

A lot of our job is bending the rules of Magic , or finding some tasty design space, and hoping that rules managers (who are incredibly awesome) deign it possible (thank you, Tabak and Jess!)

Then my opponent rakdos theater of pain just went off

Eight mana for a 5/5 flying, lifelink, haste, exalted creature is fine, but being able to convoke this onto the board faster thanks to your army of vampires makes this a fun bomb to drop

It was one of the main components in Mono-Green Devotion, and it still sees play today in the Pioneer Devotion decks

So when someone says that spoiler season is never-ending, remind them that no, it only averages out to one out of every four days