When I suggest the possibility of, say, a quad-faced card (a physical impossibility in the real world), Forsythe says that actually sounds "totally reasonable" as skirting around physical limitations is exactly the kind of thing digital card games should be trying to do. Forsythe jokingly provides his own example of a crazy effect that would actually be going too far playing a game of Space Invaders to determine a creatures toughness when it enters the battlefield
If you had previously used your hard-earned wildcards on the Historic Anthology printing of Thalia, this was a major feel-bad moment
The dangers to this stability, with Floating Isle apprentices feuding with Koskun Goblin Wizards, Eron wanting to add the power of the Anaba minotaurs to his forces and the troubles in Aysen between the Inquisition on the one hand and the Death Speakers on the other
We have card drawing as long as your dork that smashed face wasn't a Human, and it's strong in a lot of builds
Not only is it a discard outlet itself, it can help bring back dead or discarded creatures from earlier in the game
At any rate, that's decent card advantage, as well as a way to play the same cards twice