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CardName: Student's Dream Cost: 2U Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Instants and sorceries you cast during your main phase cost {1} less. {1}{U}{U}: Memento Mori At the beginning of each endstep, if Student's Dream's Memento Mori cost was paid, scry 1. If a creature died this turn, cast a copy of target instant or sorcery with a converted mana cost of 2 or less from your graveyard. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Alxzarza: Death in the Desert Uncommon
Student's Dream
  Instants and sorceries you cast during your main phase cost
 less.
: Memento Mori
At the beginning of each endstep, if Student's Dream's Memento Mori cost was paid, scry 1. If a creature died this turn, cast a copy of target instant or sorcery with a converted mana cost of 2 or less from your graveyard. |
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There were photos of college students with cadavers and I honestly don't remember what those types of photos were called. I think the cadavers were posed and the college students were on the table, but it was years ago that I had looked at these images and I'm honestly not sure. I want to say that there was a phrase/name for these types of photos, but the more I ask these questions the less sure I become.
Anyway, I tried to make a design based off of studying cadavers. I interpreted instants and sorceries as being something cast through the body (the somatic components aspect of D&D spellcasting), and thus studying the dead leading. to better understanding of how the muscles relevant for the task work.
to 
. I did consider 
instead of 
.
Increased Memento Mori activation from
to 
.
I remembered the name!
Memento Mori cost was
with "If a creature died this turn, return an instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand." That was def. rare, so made to cast copies of CMC 2 or greater from graveyard and reduced Memento Mori cost to 
(also considered 
)