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Youll still want a nice bell curve of mana costs in your cards, but unless youre playing cEDH (competitive EDH, a hellscape where games end before youve even finished shuffling - fun, but in a horribly different way), you can have a bit more fun

They are avoiding giving us the exact rarity, as they did with The One Ring, because that data point unlocks a whole lot of additional information for us: number of packs, how many copies of a card exist, things like that

Vivid Vivid cards care about the colors among your permanents

The card will also be fine in casual Commander decks where its three mana cost isnt too restrictive, and could have further versatility in strategies that can reliably pay both costs for the card, like Jodah, the Unifier