The game offers multiple difficulty levels through different battleground cards, which affect the challenge and provide unique abilities at the cost of lore
(The copy becomes a token.) A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token, so the token isn't "created." Effects that care about a token being created won't interact with a token that enters the battlefield from Archmage of Echoes's ability
Recently I have been having some discussion with fellow cube enthusiasts and it turns out that we feel a little under catered for by the good folk at Wizards
Offering two bodies and a mana sink for three mana is solid, but what puts Minsc over is that the X ability can be used as a sacrifice outlet but paying zero
First, you start with either the normal or an alternative cost
Originally, we had planned the Planeswalker focus with Future Sight (as detailed in Mark Rosewater's 2007 column here), and now that Planeswalkers had become a reality, we knew we needed to do star building for our Planeswalkers