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Their real edge comes from evoke (you can exile a card of the same color from your hand to cast them for free) which makes them perfect tempo tools that can swing a game before your opponent even untaps

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For example, if Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar enters the battlefield during combat, there will be an opportunity for your opponent to remove her before you can activate one of her abilities

Foil cards in MTG have been noticeably decreasing in quality in recent years

However, if you have less than seven cards in your hand, you get to draw a number of cards equal to the difference

Note that you can also use discard/surveil effects to set up reanimator lines with this