What's really amazing is that this came out when Duelist Magazine was a thing, and we actually do have a fair amount of insight into what were they thinking? And apparently the Homelands designers thought they were writing Lord of the Fucking Rings and had weird visions of a deep strategic game
Etched Slith Etched Slith gets stronger whenever it connects, and each time it does, you can also remove a counter from something else
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Generous Gift More flexible removal is always a good thing, and its nice to see that Wizards are acknowledging that the flexibility on cards like Anguished Unmaking and Utter End primarily stems from the White parts of the cards
There are also specific payoffs for drawing your second card and WotC experimented with payoffs for drawing your third card each turn
I think Wizards needs to look at the (1)(U)(G) mana cost as there is also Uro, Titan of Natures Wrath