Its trying to make two different audiences happy at the same time and its led to us making a set full of very odd compromises. While there were some other factors involved, including wanting to make the Magic story permeate all products and not really having the release slot for a core set, it was this issue about a core sets audience that ultimately led them to retiring them for several years
Endurance punishes the rise of Reanimator strategies in Modern and does double duty against other lands strategies, leveraging an Aftermath Analyst line
Preventing players from using life to cast spells or activate non-mana abilities is likely to become more relevant in Standard as The Brothers War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, and March of the Machine release
These are among the best red draw spells you can copy, plus they synergize with tons of Treasure and more general artifact cards, and you can hold them up alongside interaction
You may also move this Equipment to another one of your creatures by paying the cost again at sorcery speed
