Second, being more expensive can be an advantage to a threshold card because that gives you time to get the requisite cards into your graveyard assuming that you're being rewarded for all your extra effort
With the overwhelming majority of Infect decks relying on Nature's Claim to handle artifact-based threats, Chalice cuts off both some of their most important spells and their sideboarded answers
Players can cast cheap spells in the early game, but big haymakers that cost seven or eight mana need to wait until later
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on it
It wouldn't be hard, after all, to find some other super metal legendary creature to give the heavy metal treatment to
4.7/10$3.99 Thoughts of Ruin Sorcery Each player sacrifices a land of their choice for each card in your hand