Players need to be wary of this card because it can easily turn a big combat step into their defeat
The Western and Eastern clouds put up quite the fight for the shieldmages of the world, but the reason for the extra protective effort becomes obvious once you know that diamonds of varying size are carried along with the sand in the scouring winds
The top-load to side-load pipeline is real, and it usually happens after the first time a card slides out of a top-loading pocket mid-transport
At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform this creature
You are never forced to activate mana abilities to pay costs, so if there is a mandatory additional mana cost (such as from Thalia, Guardian of Thraben), you can decline to activate mana abilities to pay for it and hence fail to cast the suspended card, leaving it in exile
I want to get ahead of those spikes this time, only instead of drawing and discarding as the key abilities, exiling is now the keyword Im looking for