We first heard about Magic: The Gathering s collaboration with Marvel in October 2023
In Commander and Modern, however, Noctis is a home run.
This is the first cycle in this design chain to reward the "slow" play rather than punish or require extra resources for the "fast" play
Perhaps in the modern era we should be telling people reading the Oracle text explains the card instead
To be fair, this spirit god cant attack or block until there are eight or more permanents in your graveyard, but thats not going to be hard to do if you build your deck to support it

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