I poke fun at the hobby we all share to point out that these items we all enjoy are a couple of steps above paper, and paper is fragile
Locations feel particularly essential, as they allow you to gain passive lore each turn, but the right Items, Actions, and Songs can also boost your rise to the top so consider making room for some handy buffs
If his testing with Team Cosmos Heavy Play pays off, he'll appear on another Magic card in the near future
But in this case, its an example of the loremasters at Wizards of the Coast going a little too hard into the dictionary to find yet another term for black removal spell about decay. As for actually pronouncing phthisis correctly, just ignore that ph at the beginning, and say THIGH-sis. There will be some people who try to correct you into saying TIE-sis, but those people cant just disregard every consonant and get away with it
The archer can be a nasty surprise for your opponents since they wont see its channel ability coming from hand and the Skysweeper gives an aristocrat deck a powerful, if expensive sacrifice outlet that impacts the board