mtg cards with enter the battlefield effects Do Magic: Gathering triggered abilities activate from ETB or death triggers? Panharmonicon · Jumpstart 2022 (J22)

It can either draw you a card and provide an opponent with a 4/4 (which the Datasmith blocks handily due to protection), or it can draw an opponent a card and make you a 4/4

While you can only do it so many times before you run out of cards in your deck, it does provide a powerful engine to get some free cards

A playgroup of friends has pre-established rapport between its players that usually lets people get away with more shenanigans, so showing up with a bunch of silly effects that derail games would be much less likely to end with someone picking up their cards and leaving in a huff

Hand of Fate is a card game, but its less so one that youre playing yourself and more one that youre stuck inside of