Having that extra bit of speed for every single deck type in the game can be surprisingly powerful, as it can essentially put the player one turn ahead of their opponent in terms of resources
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If the discard was something more universal like lands or blue cards instead of artifacts, or always just one card, while retaining its instant cost it would probably get more play than Fact or Fiction, mostly for occupying a slot on the curve in less demand
We were so happy with connive in Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes that we retroactively added it to Magic: The Gathering | Marvel's Spider-Man , which was still in set design at the time, to provide more of a mechanical throughline between our Marvel sets and enable cards with mayhem
I'm not here to discuss what a move like this means to WOTC, or even speculate on their reasons for putting this kind of policy into place, but it's important nonetheless to demonstrate how this would affect the market for consumers