This theme continues through to one of the other new mechanics, Emerge , which appears on giant Eldrazi creatures with colourless mana costsbut with the option to burst forth from your existing creatures for coloured mana, getting a discount in exchange for sacrificing one of your allies
The existing mana constraints checklist for those wondering: Allied pairs can support doubles in both colors due to cycling lands and Ixalan checkland reprints (U/W Gift, U/B Control), no-one-drops allied shards work due to an excess of both of those (Grixis Energy and Naya Monsters), and wedges work best with one-drops in the shared enemy color (Llanowar Elves in Sultai) or as allied pairs splashing the third for some whammy (Brad Nelsons Sultai Midrange)
Scrying, for the uninitiated, is a process that allows you to look at the top cards of your library and then choose to change the order of them as you place them back on top of the deck or instead put them onto the bottom of your deck
But if youre playing with a choose a background commander creature and have a background card as a second commander, the background acts just like a partner commander would
(& How to Use Them) Wonder Pick, Explained Do Backward Packs Contain Better Cards
While its better known as an interaction spell, stapling any amount of mana acceleration to a 2 mana counter is ridiculously efficient, and there are only a handful of counterspells in the game that would be considered better even after 30 years
