This is because, according to communications director Blake Rasmussen, the set is designed more to simply be playable within a casual Modern environment, rather than the hard competitive focus of the earlier Modern sets Despite not being made exclusively for Modern, it will include some cards made to fill holes within the format
Rather than using an action or an item as a cheap supplement to apply Rush to a powerful character, a player can use Cogsworth and still get an extra character card on the board in the process
However, Spell Pierce costs just a single mana, and for that reason alone its right up there with the best counterspells ever printed
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The term "ramp" in Magic: The Gathering refers to any spell card that generates a net positive amount of mana, whether that be through floating mana that expires at the end of the phase, lands placed onto your side of the field (though some count searching up lands to put into your hand as ramp as well), or artifacts and cards that create artifacts that can tap for mana