That's fine in low powered pods, but would probably result in me getting crushed in mid and high-powered games
Annie Wu illustrated a 6-card scene of Captain America battling HYDRA
That said, getting to save a creature from certain death during combat is still strong, and Id expect any Cleric deck to at least consider this
Putting both on one card offers lots of flexibility
This stage could be a completely separate blogpost, but let's note that he took the term "mana" from Larry Niven's Warlock books (and Larry had taken it from Polynesian Mythology, but was still rewarded by having his name backwards on neviN yrraL's Disk), and that he removed the use of dice and tearing up destroyed cards during this stage
(Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.) //// Urza, Planeswalker Color indicator: white, blue Legendary Planeswalker Urza 7 You may activate the loyalty abilities of Urza, Planeswalker twice each turn rather than only once