Intellectual Offering gives you a little room to bargain: You can have one opponent draw three cards and untap all of their nonland permanents, or have one opponent draw and another untap
The cards bring an aspect of the Final Fantasy games that has been present for each of the mainline entries in a multitude of different ways, as Legendary Artifacts in the Magic: The Gathering format crystals
Theres a great little bit of detail in the piece, with the stairs in the foreground seemingly turning into grasping hands, reaching out at the Archon, or perhaps the little victim it's claimed on its spear
Geralf's Messenger is a three-drop triple=Black dork with a 3/2 body that enters tapped and your foe loses 2 life on arrival
Its not the easiest way to get an additional combat compared to the other cards on this list
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