She liked the circus idea, and I like the retro-science fiction idea, so we said, "Why not do both?" As we started doing design, it quickly became apparent that there weren't enough circus tropes to fill a whole set, so we expanded to carnival tropes
In multiplayer this is almost a worse Day of Judgment since, in a typical 4 Player Free For All game of Commander, you're potentially drawing up to one card while your opponents are collectively drawing up to three
The opponent cant choose to block a fighting creature either
R&D quickly adopted the psychographic profiles, and they became part of our internal language
Voice is not true card advantage, but it has the same function of filtering through your deck as Divination, but is cheaper
For comparison, Phyrexian Rager is essentially the exact same card and its regular casting cost is the same as Blade Jugglers spectacle cost