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Not only is it a cheap wizard to start getting your damage pings in, but its also a noncreature spell to trigger your other wizards

Djeru and Hazoret and Inga and Esika clearly take after the human half of their legendary pairings, while Tiamat and Asmodeus the Archfiend are gods more in the Kaldheim mold of powerful extraplanar beings than deific figures of worship

Whisper, Blood Liturgist Whisper, Blood Liturgist is a fantastic budget option for graveyard recursion

Collectors pay for the story behind the card as much as the card itself

And thats despite an entire set (1994s Antiquities being focused on the war between him and his brother, Mishra (though, he does get his first flavor text mentions many times over in the set)