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Because those characters have their own stories and motivations, who you choose to travel with often says a lot about how you like to play the game

Just casting this card gives you a free shrine, and later, you can generate some 1/1 spirit tokens

Discard was quickly thrown out and replaced with direct damage, mainly to keep purple from playing like a traditional blue-black control deck (ironically, this made it play somewhat like blue-red, the two colors that mix to create purple, but this was a coincidence)

Each attack mills a ton of cards from your opponent, depriving them of a lot of resources they may need to win the game

A common payoff for discard effects is damage, as with Entropic Battlecruiser and Megrim