If you find yourself needing a mana sink, you can also spend seven mana and tap it to go to askurza.com and enter the fun house to use a random ability such as creating a token or drawing cards
While taking Magic tropes and twisting them is a source for many cards, this card came about in a backwards way
This is usually a lame effect except in a focused Fog deck
Once per turn, players were allowed to play an unwanted card face down and use it as a resource instead
Combining it with Fastbond Not only is this an incredibly strong way to continuously play additional lands for little cost, but there are all kinds of loops you can pull off with cards like Flash In cEDH, so many games were coming down to Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Griselbrand Cheating out a Hullbreacher This is an incredibly unfun card that stifled a popular part of Commander, spiked the popularity of wheel effects, and made an outrageous number of Treasure tokens
However, this information may be useful to you: The Platinum Imperion ability doesnt prevent damage, it just changes its consequences