Given their color identity, Nine-Fingers does lock us out of the red and white gates and any associated cards, but the majority of our spells in a 5-color Maze's End deck will be green anyway
Sapphire Dragon Hello fans of flexibility
Illustrated by: Ina Wong Multiverse ID: 661059 Not Legal Traditional Standard Not Legal Traditional Alchemy Not Legal Traditional Explorer Rulings 2024-06-07 If you sacrifice Party Thrasher while casting a noncreature spell from exile (to activate a mana ability, for example), the spell won't have convoke when you pay its costs unless it has convoke some other way
Four mana is just sort of high on the curve to be casting what is essentially a mana accelerant, and a conditional one at that
Sometimes players will name one if context calls for it, but by and large Talion draws from two
The Shocker Illustrator: Thomas M Baxa The Shocker Our first red-mana insect, the shocker is another 1/1 weenie, but if it manages to damage a player, they have to dump their entire hand into their graveyard and draw a new one, which can easily cost a player some important cards