first mtg card ever printed This Day in Magic History: Legends Is Released (June 10th, 1994) Splendid Genesis - One of

For example, if you blight 2 and put two -1/-1 counters on a creature with three +1/+1 counters on it, two of those +1/+1 counters and the two -1/-1 counters will be removed, leaving the creature with only a single +1/+1 counter on it

Essence Channeler's last ability doesn't cause you to move counters from Essence Channeler onto the target creature

Jo is one of only three cards in the entire game capable of giving cards in our hand cycling, so well take the other one thats available to our deck

Youll mostly only see this card in Commander spellslinger decks, though being unbanned in Modern was a huge boon for the card