What separates Altered from the competition besides this gorgeously layered card backwhich is like a gentle dream shared between a tree and a whirlpoolwould be its rancid fixation on placing large QR codes in the corner of every card, in case you needed a reminder that your cards are products of an inscrutable system and not extensions of your imagination
Feast and Famine offers more in terms of design scope that most of the other Swords
Plus this Ignoble isnt a Human, and thats a big deal
Lorwyn and Shadowmoor are my favorite planes in all of Magic and the creatures darker halves always unsettled me, especially the Merfolk
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale, Bruenor Battlehammer, Puresteel Paladin, Stoneforge Mystic
You won't draw a card, and since it failed to resolve, it will go to your graveyard rather than being exiled