How about a cycle of elementals whose ETBs provided huge immediate battlefield impact, suffered from no timing disadvantages, and cost ZERO mana to evoke
Think about it: rogues hit someone fast and hard, sift through their data (represented by milling), and steal their intel (represented by drawing cards if they mill creatures)
In other words, they are the creature that best represent blue's philosophy: the pursuit of knowledge above all else
Consider Combinations Up until this point, we've mostly been evaluating each card on its own
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Borderless panel and iconic covers variants help sell the comic book heritage of these characters, too, while borderless logo variants are striking designs that call to mind a similar treatment for the Final Fantasy sets numeral cards