Other cards found in the Ursulas Return set that feature this new approach to the Shift keyword include Flotsam & Jetsam, Entangling Eels - which a five strength/five health card that requires two cards to be discarded - Diablo, Devoted Herald, a card that requires players discard an action card, Li Shang, Valorous General - with players needing to discard a character card to Shift it in - Olaf, Carrot Enthusiast, a Sapphire card that can be Shifted by discarding an item card, and steel card Aladdin, Brave Rescuer: which requires that a location card be discard for it to be Shifted
Spells that can use 8 mana only exist in blue, red, and green
Those cards are usually received as innovations, but each new execution of a temporary brand new layout makes the game less cohesive
If peoples decks brick against cards like this, then its a learning moment about how to threat assess, how much removal to run, and how to develop a gameplan
There are many categories of ramp, the most common of which are: Mana Rocks: Artifacts that generate mana
It's not a particularly close contest with the third most valuable Strip Mine either, especially when compared to Strip Mine #130, which is almost $100 more