Rather than pay two black mana, you can pay one black mana and one mana of any color instead
Moving this to something more suited to wield it could be extremely valuable
Should they succeed, they're rewarded eternal life in a crystal stasis
If we go way too safe, we risk the other thing, where the trading card gamers say, This isnt for me. I think the reason it took so long to get where we got was that specific target we were trying to hit to do something that we feel is welcoming, and strategically exciting for trading card gamers
We didn't want to use an X in an activation cost because we were worried it would cause confusion (yes, as long as X is the same variable the rules can handle it, but experience has shown us time and again that variables are one of the most confusing things in the game for a lot of players), so we tried having the effect limited by the size of the X variable
Just cheap, powerful and offering some things you want