It prevents players from targeting their creatures with spells
Assuming you've got a cost reducer in play, this gives you a net gain of two mana when you cast it, helping you keep on casting spells until you win
Deck List How To Play While some control decks can have poorly weighted mana curves, this Jeskai Control deck is much more manageable , although some of that is hidden by additional activation costs in cards like Three Steps Ahead, which presents as a one blue mana spell, but actually costs three or five mana based on the choices you make
Its unlikely well see a better variant of the card since Ponder and Preordain are currently banned in Modern, so it would be a surprise to see a similar card at a lower mana value
They werent done, either: they told us that reprints were coming in a Holiday edition and those reprints included serialized psychedelic poster versions of cards and serialized versions of the Realms and Relics
Also this was a huge missed opportunity to reprint Adarkar Wastes, which hasn't been reprinted since 2007, 15 years ago