If the player buys everything he offers them over the course of the game, he rewards them for their loyalty with a Ribbon, one of the most powerful accessories in the series that prevents you from suffering a variety of status elements
The 8-mana cost is very steep, but the double cascading effects will start to dominate your opponents right away
Making it so that it cant be countered is crucial, since youre investing a whopping eight mana to cast it, but your opponents can still interact with it a bit by killing whatever creature you have with the highest toughness
Merely renaming Drop of Honey would count as a reprint, because the card name is not a listed part of being functionally identical. Changing its mana cost from one green mana to one white mana, however, allowed the printing of Porphyry Nodes, as mana cost is on the list of attributes
It's not the first time this mechanic has been used, but it forces you to plan and think about which card doesn't fit your strategy
Because of that, Banding Sliver is a card Id love to be able to include in my sliver decks
