mtg is playing a card the same as casting Play" vs. "Cast" — Q&A Are 'cast' and 'play' the

If a card has no mana cost, its escape cost is an unpayable cost, so you can't cast it for that cost

And once it does, you do ugly things swinging with that nasty 9/9 Colossus

Never cast it during Game 1 but was happy I had it

Im glad to see her on a creature cards as opposed to on yet another roughly interchangeable planeswalker, and Im looking forward to seeing more of her as a creature down the road

The first cares about creatures entering during combat, which isnt exactly a common occurrence in most games

Theres also the Background enchantment Far Traveler, which enables your commander to blink a tapped creature every turn