This redesign carried over to the TCG, with five Jynx cards updated, starting with the purple Jynx in 2001
He claimed them to be his sons who had gone off to college and he was just getting rid of them
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Blasphemous Act)
If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the stated exceptions
Occasionally youll be discarding excess lands, but the opportunity to thin your deck of multiple dead draws is usually well worth it in those scenarios
It gives you incredible value, and its the most expensive Sword for a reason