Original Card: Serrated Arrows

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• Moved from common to uncommon. ­
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• Removed "At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on..." ­
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Two things I wish I could do. I wish I could change 'arrowhead counters' to something better, but there's no real need to, so I didn't. I also wish I could change the casting cost to and use 5 counters, since there are five arrowheads in the artwork. Seriously Wizards? Either inform the artist, or change your card when you see the art. Ah well... this comes from a time before people cared about this sort of thing.

Also, nowadays we don't see too many artifact that self-sacrifice when they run out of counters. Extra words and not enough benefit. You're more likely to want to bounce or flicker the artifact than raise it from the grave anyway.

Huh. I thought I remembered recent cards sacrificing themselves once they were used up... but Necrogen Censer, Shriekhorn, Sphere of the Suns, Surge Node, and Tumble Magnet disagree with me. The only sortof-exception is Mana Bloom, and that's a plant for Constellation anyway. So yes, this looks like a spot-on adaptation.

Changed image to the Duel Decks version. I like the original better, but... three arrows.