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The enemy color relationships create interesting mechanical tensions

Make sure to read the up to date oracle text, and remember that mana abilities cant be targeted, so youre not going to stop cards like Timeless Lotus or Mana Vault

The last row will give you a proportionally correct number of lands for each color

And once you add blink effects or reanimation, the engine gets even harder to stop

This was one of those cards that a lot of decks were on the edge of playing, either because they couldn't quite get threshold reliably or they didn't want to splash one of the colors, inviting them to play a high-risk but high-reward game with their mana bases that both cost them games and won them games they had little right to win