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The answer is that the card back was designed to look like a magic tome

The catch is that Hierophant Bio-Titan costs 12 mana

Keeping Disk mana up in case of emergency is easy

Philosophy and Operations In last years State of the Format article, Sheldon shared a preview of some potential changes to the format philosophy

At first, its just a land that taps for blue, but once you station enough charge counters onto it (12 or more), it transforms into a serious mana engine

And then theres Doctor Doom, a 3/3 black creature that enters with Doombot tokens, lets players draw a card and take damage at the end of their turn, and is indestructible while an artifact creature or Plan is on the field