Cycling ( , Discard this card: Draw a card.) Cid, Timeless Artificer Rarity: Uncommon TYPE: Legendary Creature SUBTYPE: Human Artificer CMC: 4 Mana cost: USD: $4.11 EUR: 2.98 TIX: 0.14 EDHREC RANK: 12038 (4/4) Artifact creatures and Heroes you control get +1/+1 for each Artificer you control and each Artificer card in your graveyard
A 36-pack box can support 12 players, or an 8-player draft with a larger prize pool
Before Secrets of Strixhaven was even released, Timely Ward was already appearing in quite a few Commander decklists across Voltron and Aura-focused builds
While the card itself has no abilities, the artwork was so popular that a reprinted enchanted version was bound to be popular
The design team emphasized that the cards designs and functionality are directly inspired by how these elements work in the mainline Final Fantasy games
Thats a trickier proposition than jamming four copies of Lightning Bolt or Swords to Plowshares and calling it a day, and requires digging through the various options and weighing their strengths and weaknesses against the common threats in the metagame
