If you're casting a modal double-faced card with escape, you choose how you wish to cast it, then pay the appropriate cost (for the face you're casting) plus exiling three other cards
While there are powerful alternatives like Eternal Witness for straightforward recursion or Golgari Findbroker for additional versatility, Nantuko Slicer offers unique synergy with its kicker ability and the mana flexibility it provides, making it a viable option that should see play in the right build, especially in formats that emphasize graveyard strategies
I tried everything I could
to do so, either choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand
But once Oath of the Gatewatch came around a few years later and unleashed a bunch of still powerful but much cheaper Eldrazi, the card suddenly broke Modern during Eldrazi Winter, which only thawed once Eye was banned
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